The Case for Single Motherhood: Contemporary Maternal Identities and Family Formations

by Katherine Elizabeth Mack

Delves into the rhetorical work of elective single mothers (ESMs) in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries as they sought--and continue to seek--to legitimize their maternal identities and family formations

Scholars of rhetoric have largely overlooked the inherent rhetoricity of family. In The Case for Single Motherhood, Katherine Mack posits family as a central concern of rhetorical studies by reflecting on how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817321543
• ISBN13: 9780817321543
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University of Alabama Press
• Length: 192 Pages