PHIL 2500 Lecture : Domestic Work- Choice or Coercion? Stone and Kuperberg, Opting out.docx
22 Apr 2013
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Review historical trends of how w are presented in the media, statistics of. Authors explore rhetoric and reality surrounding exist of college- educated. Pamela stone- women aren"t opting out their being shut out. Important concepts-rhetoric (vs reality), opting out, choice, motherhood, wifehood, elitism, postfeminism, antifeminism, new traditionalist. Methodology women who opt out, interviews of women who opt out, afterwards- conclusions- pointing out inconsistencies ( it"s a feminist revolution vs. what"s really going on). What"s going on rhetorically in the media doesn"t reflect what"s going on in reality. The suggest that there isn"t really that free choice, it"s just couched in democratic language. Referring to heterosexual women, married, have children, elite women- women of privilege. Opting out- term was coined by new york times 2003 women from the workforce to become full-time mothers. The authors point out contradictions that women have personal choice to oo, couched as a positive decision, idea that it"s democratic, free.
