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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, interra...
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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.
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Price: $37.00
Pages: 408
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Publication Date: 23 September 2010
Trim Size: 9.25 X 6.12 in
ISBN: 9780231149679
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work
Andrea O'Reilly is associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University and the editor or coeditor of more than fourteen books on motherhood. She is the author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering. She is also the founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, formerly the Association for Research on Mothering and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, formerly the Journal of the Association for Research and Mothering.

Introduction, by Andrea O'Reilly
Part I: Experience
1. Chicana Mothering in the Twenty-first Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture, by Jessica M. Vasquez
2. Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts, by Gail Murphy-Geiss
3. Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting, by Ana Villalobos
4. Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Female-to-Male Transgender Children, by Sarah F. Pearlman
5. Queer Parenting in the New Millennium: Resisting Normal, by Rachel Epstein
6. Contemporary Mothering Practices in the Context of HIV and AIDS: A South African Case, by Thenjiwe Magwaza
Part II: Identity
7. Ambivalence of the Motherhood Experience, by Ivana Brown
8. Supermothers on Film; or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century, by Adrienne McCormick
9. Juno or Just Another Girl? Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics of Motherhood, by Mary Thompson
10. Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Engaging with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering, by Andrea Doucet
11. Reproducing Possibilities: Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity, by Deirdre M. Condit
Part III: Policy
12. Mothers of the Global Welfare State: How Neoliberal Globalization Affects Working Mothers in Sweden and Canada, by Honor Brabazon
13. The Erosion of College Access for Low-Income Mothers, by A. Fiona Pearson
14. Academic Life Balance for Mothers: Pipeline or Pipe Dream?, by Michele L. Vancour and William M. Sherman
15. Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya, by Violet Naanyu
16. Brown Bodies, White Eggs: The Politics of Cross-racial Gestational Surrogacy, by Laura Harrison
17. What Will Become of Us? New Biotechnologies and the Need for Maternal Leadership, by Enola G. Aird
Part IV: Agency
18. From "Choice" to Change: Rewriting the Script of Motherhood as Maternal Activism, by Judith Stadtman Tucker
19. The Mothers' Movement: The Challenges of Coalition Building in the Twenty-first Century, by Patrice DiQuinzio
20. Political Labeling of Mothers: An Obstacle to Equality in Politics, by Marsha Marotta
21. Racially Conscious Mothering in the "Colorblind" Century: Implications for African American Motherwork, by Camille Wilson Cooper
22. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Mothering on the Internet, by May Friedman
23. Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century, by Andrea O'Reilly