"Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers": Resisting Stigma and Embracing Grace as Dis-ease
This article examines the stigma surrounding mental health, drawing out implications for Christian theological anthropology and ethics. As I argue, the stigma surrounding maternal madness engenders the sociocultural and religious veiling of affective and sexual difference within Western Christian mi...
| Published in: | Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2017]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology NBK Soteriology NCB Personal ethics ZB Sociology ZD Psychology |
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| Summary: | This article examines the stigma surrounding mental health, drawing out implications for Christian theological anthropology and ethics. As I argue, the stigma surrounding maternal madness engenders the sociocultural and religious veiling of affective and sexual difference within Western Christian milieu reflecting a heteropatriarchal framework for articulating the value of bodies, emotions, and control. In practice and theory, this framework places mothers with affective mood disorders outside of economies (structures and practices) of care and goodness. Such logic veils the ways in which maternal madness calls us to embrace the transformative power of grace as dis-ease through (a) welcoming unpredictability within God, self, and others; (b) resisting easy fixes; and (c) actively discerning the politics of emotion. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2017.0009 |