Title: Good Enough Mothers
Description: "Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional life course framework, it demonstrates how the transition to motherhood is never complete. Once a good mother is defined, she becomes undefined, the goal posts moved, and the rules confronted"--
Subjects: Sociology, Motherhood, Mothers, Services for, Maternal health services, Discrimination in medical care, Family services