TY - JOUR
T1 - Family Metaphors and the Nation
T2 - Promoting a Politics of Care through the Million Mom March
AU - Hayden, Sara
PY - 2003/8
Y1 - 2003/8
N2 - The causes for which maternity has been invoked are as divergent as they are ubiquitous, yet the popularity of maternal politics among activists is not matched by an equally enthusiastic or unified assessment from scholars. On the contrary, scholars vigorously debate maternal appeals' strategic efficacy as well as their implications for gender norms. In this essay I argue that George Lakoff's discussion of the nation-as-family metaphor illuminates the political potency and the potential effectiveness of maternal appeals as well as their implications for gender norms, I illustrate my argument through an analysis of the Million Mom March.
AB - The causes for which maternity has been invoked are as divergent as they are ubiquitous, yet the popularity of maternal politics among activists is not matched by an equally enthusiastic or unified assessment from scholars. On the contrary, scholars vigorously debate maternal appeals' strategic efficacy as well as their implications for gender norms. In this essay I argue that George Lakoff's discussion of the nation-as-family metaphor illuminates the political potency and the potential effectiveness of maternal appeals as well as their implications for gender norms, I illustrate my argument through an analysis of the Million Mom March.
KW - Feminine style
KW - Metaphor
KW - Million Mom March
KW - Motherhood
KW - Nation-as-family
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0242641172&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0033563032000125313
DO - 10.1080/0033563032000125313
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0242641172
SN - 0033-5630
VL - 89
SP - 196
EP - 215
JO - Quarterly Journal of Speech
JF - Quarterly Journal of Speech
IS - 3
ER -