Reassembling Motherhood : Procreation and Care in a Globalized World / Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel.
The word "mother" traditionally meant a woman who bears and nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and the development of markets for procreation and care have radically expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become a matter of choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic disadvantages, cultural mores, and discrimination force some women into motherhood and prevent others from caring for their children.Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to examine the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how the processes of bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe. The authors examine issues such as artificial reproductive technologies, surrogacy, fetal ultrasounds, adoption, nonparental care, and the legal status of kinship, showing how complex chains of procreation and childcare have simultaneously generated greater liberty and new forms of constraint. Emphasizing the tension between the liberalization of procreation and care on the one hand, and the limits to their democratization due to race, class, and global inequality on the other, the book highlights debates that have emerged as these multifaceted changes have led to both the fragmentation and reassembling of motherhood.
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| Ort, Verlag, Jahr |
New York, NY
: Columbia University Press
, 2018
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| Umfang | 1 online resource (337 pages) : : illustrations Issued also in print. |
| ISBN | 9780231538077 0231538073 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Zusatzinfo | Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , INTRODUCTION. NEGOTIATING "MOTHER" IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: BETWEEN CHOICE AND CONSTRAINT / , Ergas, Yasmine / Jenson, Jane / Michel, Sonya -- , 1. CERTAIN MOTHERS, UNCERTAIN FATHERS: PLACING ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE / , Milanich, Nara -- , 2. ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE BIOLOGICAL BOTTOM LINE / , Kahn, Linda G. / Chavkin, Wendy -- , 3. MULTIPLE "MOTHERS," MANY REQUIREMENTS FOR PROTECTION: CHILDREN'S RIGHTS AND THE STATUS OF MOTHERS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL SURROGACY / , Achmad, Claire -- , 4. THE BORDERS OF LEGAL MOTHERHOOD: RETHINKING ACCESS TO ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES IN EUROPE / , Palumbo, Letizia -- , 5. PREGNANT BODIES AND THE SUBJECTS OF RIGHTS: THE SURROGACY-ABORTION NEXUS / , Ergas, Yasmine -- , 6. THE MOTHERLESS FETUS: ULTRASOUND PICTURES AND THEIR MAGIC DISAPPEARING TRICK / , Higonnet, Anne -- , 7. CONTRACTING FOR MOTHERHOOD: POSTADOPTION VISITATION AGREEMENTS / , Sanger, Carol -- , 8. RELINQUISHMENT AND ADOPTION IN TAMIL SOCIETY: MOTHERS' EXPERIENCES WITH DE-KINNING / , Bos, Pien -- , 9. MARGINALIZED MOTHERS AND INTERSECTING SYSTEMS OF SURVEILLANCE: PRISONS AND FOSTER CARE / , Roberts, Dorothy -- , 10. CARE AND GENDER / , Albertson Fineman, Martha -- , 11. THE DOUBLE LIVES OF TRANSNATIONAL MOTHERS / , Michel, Sonya / Oliveira, Gabrielle -- , 12. EURO-ORPHANS AND THE STIGMATIZATION OF MIGRANT MOTHERHOOD / , Lutz, Helma -- , 13. THE NEW MATERNALISM: CHILDREN FIRST; WOMEN SECOND / , Jenson, Jane -- , AFTERWORD: CROSSING INTO THE FUTURE / , Kessler-Harris, Alice -- , CONTRIBUTORS -- , INDEX |
| Zusatzinfo | In English. |
| Online-Zugang | EBSCO EBS 2024 https://doi.org/10.7312/erga17050 |
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