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The motherhood business : consumption, communication, and privilege / edited by Anne Teresa Demo, Jennifer L. Borda, and Charlotte Krolokke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motherhood--Economic aspects.
- Motherhood.
- Mothers.
- Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry.Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race, and nationality) inform discourses about.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reframing Motherhood: Factoring in Consumption and Privilege - Anne Teresa Demo; 1. The Golden Egg: The Business of Making Mothers through Egg Donation - Charlotte Kroløkke; 2. Race(ing) to the Baby Market: The Political Economy of Overcoming Infertility - K. Animashaun Ducre; 3. A Baby "Made in India": Motherhood, Consumerism, and Privilege in Transnational Surrogacy - Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen; 4. "We Were Introduced to Foods I Never Even Heard of": Parents as Consumers on Reality Television - Cynthia Gordon
- 5. Cultivating Community within the Commercial Marketplace: Blurred Boundaries in the "Mommy" Blogosphere - Jennifer L. Borda6. Mompreneurs: Homemade Organic Baby Food and the Commodification of Intensive Mothering - Kara N. Dillard; 7. Maternal Crime in a Cathedral of Consumption - Sara Hayden; 8. "Don't Worry, Mama Will Fix It!": Playing with the Mama Myth in Video Games - Shira Chess; 9. Motherhood and the Necessity of Invention: The Possibilities of Play in a Culture of Consumption - Christine Harold; 10. Choosing to Consume: Race, Education, and the School Voucher Debate - Lisa A. Flores
- Suggested ReadingsContributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8908-3
- OCLC:
- 921122552
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