"Canada's most notorious bad mother": the newspaper coverage of the Jordan Heikamp inquest.: An article from: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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This digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7427 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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MoreThis digital document is an article from The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, published by Thomson Gale on May 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7427 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: This article is an examination of the media coverage of the inquest into the 1997 starvation death of an infant in a homeless women's shelter in Toronto. It explores the usefulness of using the discourse of mothering, intersected with the individualization of responsibility, to understand why one interpretation of this case seized the imagination of the public and informed media accounts. Examining how the mother of this infant was constructed as a "bad" mother helps to understand how hegemonic notions of "good" mothering are reinforced and perpetuated. The invocation of the ideals of motherhood, however, prevents us from seeing the reality of others' experiences of motherhood and the fact that, for many, there are barriers and restrictions to the ideal of good mothering.
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Title: "Canada's most notorious bad mother": the newspaper coverage of the Jordan Heikamp inquest.
Author: Krista Robson
Publication: The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 42 Issue: 2 Page: 217(16)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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