Twenty-first-century motherhood
Subtitle: experience, identity, policy, agency
By: edited by Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780231149662; 9780231149679; 9780231520478
Subjects: Motherhood; Mass media and women; Social conditions; Political activity; Identity; Women
Other titles: 21st century motherhood
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chicana mothering in the twenty-first century: challenging stereotypes and transmitting culture  -- Jessica M. Vasquez; title: Muslim motherhood: traditions in changing contexts  -- Gail Murphy-Geiss; title: Mothering in fear: how living in an insecure-feeling world affects parenting  -- Ana Villalobos; title: Mother-talk: conversations with mothers of female-to-male transgender children  -- Sarah F. Pearlman; title: Queer parenting in the new millennium: resisting normal  -- Rachel Epstein; title: Contemporary mothering practices in the context of HIV and AIDS: a South African case  -- Thenjiwe Magwaza; title: Ambivalence of the motherhood experience  -- Ivana Brown; title: Supermothers on film; or, maternal melodrama in the twenty-first century  -- Adrienne McCormick; title: Juno or just another girl? Young breeders and a new century of radical politics of motherhood  -- Mary Thompson; title: Taking off the maternal lens: engaging with Sara Ruddick on men and mothering  -- Andrea Doucet; title: Reproducing possibilities: androgenesis and mothering human identity  -- Deirdre M. Condit; title: Mothers of the global welfare state: how neoliberal globalization affects working mothers in Sweden and Canada  -- Honor Brabazon; title: The erosion of college access for low-income mothers  -- A. Fiona Pearson; title: Academic life balance for mothers: pipeline or pipe dream?  -- Michele L. Vancour and William M. Sherman; title: Exclusive breastfeeding and work policies in Eldoret, Kenya  -- Violet Naanyu; title: Brown bodies, white eggs: the politics of cross-racial gestational surrogacy  -- Laura Harrison; title: What will become of us? New biotechnologies and the need for maternal leadership  -- Enola G. Aird; title: From "choice" to change: rewriting the script of motherhood as maternal activism  -- Judith Stadtman Tucker; title: The mothers' movement: the challenges of coalition building in the twenty-first century  -- Patrice DiQuinzio; title: Political labeling of mothers: an obstacle to equality in politics  -- Marsha Marotta; title: Racially conscious mothering in the "colorblind" century: implications for African American motherwork  -- Camille Wilson Cooper; title: It takes a (virtual) village: mothering on the internet  -- May Friedman; title: Outlaw(ing) motherhood: a theory and politic of maternal empowerment for the twenty-first century -- Andrea O'Reilly.