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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081736112X
• ISBN13: 9780817361129
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 192 Pages