ABSTRACT In the 1990s, “Murphy Brown” mothers—often unwed, older, white, and professional—could embrace their alliance with stigmatized single mothers or mark their difference from them, while simultaneously demonstrating their alignment with the dominant discourse of “family values.” Many opted for the latter, gathering under the label “Single Mothers by Choice” (SMC). Using an intersectional cultural rhetorical methodology, this article identifies the axioms of “family values” and demonstrates how they shaped SMC’s efforts to legitimize themselves through an analysis of Jane Mattes’s 1994 guidebook, Single Mothers by Choice: A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood.

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我是墨菲布朗：选择单身母亲修辞中的种族和阶级

摘要 在 1990 年代，“墨菲布朗”母亲——通常是未婚、年长、白人和职业女性——可以接受他们与受到污名化的单身母亲的联盟，或者标记她们与她们的不同，同时展示她们与“家庭价值观”的主导话语的一致。 ” 许多人选择了后者，以“选择的单身母亲”（SMC）的名义聚集在一起。本文使用交叉文化修辞方法，确定了“家庭价值观”的公理，并通过分析 Jane Mattes 1994 年的指南《选择的单身母亲：考虑或考虑单身女性的指南》，展示了它们如何塑造 SMC 使自己合法化的努力。选择了母性。