Twenty-first-century motherhood : experience, identity, policy, agency / edited by Andrea O'Reilly.

Contributor O'Reilly, Andrea, 1961-

Imprint:New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.

Descriptionx, 398 p. ; 25 cm.

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

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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