Twenty-first-Century Motherhood : Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Andrea. O'Reilly
Bok Engelsk 2010 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | New York : : Columbia University Press, , 2010.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (409 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - 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. - 15 Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya16 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 Internet23 Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century; Contributors; Index. - 8 Supermothers on Film or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century9 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?. - For more than two decades, the study of motherhood has focused on three main categories: motherhood as institution, motherhood as experience, and motherhood as identity or subjectivity. While this work has been groundbreaking, it fails to account for motherhood in the twenty-first century, which has been transformed by increasing agency, along with immense social, scientific, and technological changes. A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's representation and practice today. Her book considers developments that were unimaginable even a decade ago-the Inte
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| ISBN | 9780231149662. - 9780231149679
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