A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range of disciplines and themes in motherhood studies. She confronts the effects of globalization, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, politicians as mothers, third wave feminism, and the evolving motherhood movement, and she incorporates Chicana, African-American, Canadian, Muslim, queer, low-income, trans, and lesbian perspectives.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 1: Experience
- 1 Chicana Mothering in the Twenty-first Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture
- 2 Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts
- 3 Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting
- 4 Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Female-to-Male Transgender Children
- 5 Queer Parenting in the New Millennium: Resisting Normal
- 6 Contemporary Mothering Practices in the Context of HIV and AIDS: A South African Case
- PART 2: Identity
- 7 Ambivalence of the Motherhood Experience
- 8 Supermothers on Film or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century
- 9 Juno or Just Another Girl?: Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics of Motherhood
- 10 Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Engaging with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering
- 11 Reproducing Possibilities: Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity
- PART 3: Policy
- 12 Mothers of the Global Welfare State: How Neoliberal Globalization Affects Working Mothers in Sweden and Canada
- 13 The Erosion of College Access for Low-Income Mothers
- 14 Academic Life Balance for Mothers: Pipeline or Pipe Dream?
- 15 Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya
- 16 Brown Bodies, White Eggs: The Politics of Cross-racial Gestational Surrogacy
- 17 What Will Become of Us?: New Biotechnologies and the Need for Maternal Leadership
- PART 4: Agency
- 18 From “Choice” to Change: Rewriting the Script of Motherhood as Maternal Activism
- 19 The Mothers’ Movement: The Challenges of Coalition Building in the Twenty-first Century
- 20 Political Labeling of Mothers: An Obstacle to Equality in Politics
- 21 Racially Conscious Mothering in the “Colorblind” Century: Implications for African American Motherwork
- 22 It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Mothering on the Internet
- 23 Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century
- Contributors
- Index
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