Marginalized mothers, mothering from the margins / edited by Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Tiffany, 1972- editor.

Bloch, Katrina, editor.

Series:

Advances in gender research ; 1529-2126 v. 25.

Advances in gender research, 1529-2126 ; volume 25

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing, [2018]

Summary:

This volume focuses on the ways in which mothers aremarginalized based on intersecting identities, such as immigration status, race, class, disability, sexuality, and how these women mother from the margins. Divided into three sections, this collection brings forth the voices andexperiences of mothers and highlights the institutions and laws that marginalize them. In the first section, mothers face barriers such as institutional constraints that block them from needed resources and the ability to mother as they see fit. In section two, contributors examine theborders of marginalized mothering - boundaries reflected through citizenship, walls, geography, dealings with intimate partners and welfare offices, or prison bars. Readings in this section highlight mothers' efforts to transcend, resist, or even just survive experiences with borders.The final section centers on mothers that explicitly adopt mothering strategies of resistance or explicitly use their status as mothers in their activism. Topics range from mothers who engage in milk sharing to mothers of color whom organize against police brutality.Throughout the volume, contributors demonstrate the striking resilience of these mothers, and their resistance in challenging the ideologies and institutions that marginalize them.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editors' Preface

List of Contributors

List of Tables

Introduction: Bringing Marginalized Mothers to the Center

The Beginning

The Marginalization of Mothers and Intersectionality

This Volume

References

Part 1: Barriers That Marginalize Mothers

Chapter 1: Pride and Hope, Shame And Blame: How Welfare Mothers in Higher Education Juggle Competing Identities

Welfare Reform and Assumptions About Mothering

Marginalized Mothering While in College

Methods

Negotiating Identities

Mothering While Studying

Reliance Necessitates Compliance

Discussion: Capitalizing their Capital

Conclusion and Implications

Chapter 2: "Watching What I'm Doing, Watching How I'm Doing It": Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalized Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales

Introduction

The Studies

Findings

Policing from Professionals

Policing from Publics

Concluding Remarks

Chapter 3: Mothering, Identity Construction, and Visions of the Future Among Low-Income Adolescent Mothers from São Paulo, Brazil

Maternal Identity

Aspirations and Expectations for the Future

Conclusion

Chapter 4: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Socioeconomic (Im)Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers of Children with Disabilities

Background

Socioeconomic Mobility Aspirations of Low-Income Mothers

Employment and Education of Parents and Child Disability

Mother's Health and Comorbidity

Data Analysis

Results

Barriers to Mobility

Maternal Health, Family Comorbidity, and Cumulative Disadvantage

References.

Chapter 5: The Parental Experience of Mothers with Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities: Qualitative Reflections on Marginalization and Resiliencey

Review of the Literature

Methods and Sampling Strategy

Family Impact: Challenges and Rewards

Experiences of Marginalization

Intersections of Marginalization

Discussion

Part 2: Borders That Marginalize Mothers

Chapter 6: Chinese Maternity Tourists and their "Anchor Babies"? Disdain and Racialized Conditional Acceptance of Non-Citizen Reproduction

The Era of Exclusion (And Classed Inclusion)

The Digital Birth of "Anchor Babies"

Methodology

Expanding Exclusion Through Inclusion: Children Constructed as Legal Loopholes and "Anchor Babies"

Relational Sympathies

Racialized Anxieties or Racialized Conditional Acceptance? Yellow Peril and the Model Minority

Chapter 7: Negotiating Gender and Power: How Some Poor Mothers Employ Economic Survival Strategies After Welfare Reform

Women, Men, and the United States-Mexico Immigration and Welfare Systems

Ethnographic Methodology

Data Sources, Coding, and Analysis

The Welfare System and Power Relations in Client-Caseworker Interactions

Migration and Welfare Reconstruct Gender Expectations in Economic Survival Strategies

Symbolic Reliance: How Poor Women Do Gender in Romantic Unions

Selective Reliance: How Poor Women Undo Patriarchy only to Redo Gender

Creative Nondisclosure: How Poor Women Undo Patriarchy and Undo/Redo Gender

Discussion and Conclusion

Chapter 8: "I'm Not a Good Mother Now, But I Will Be in the Future": Sub-Saharan African Transnational Mothers in a Transit Migrant Country

Literature Review.

Sub-Saharan Africans in Morocco

Mothers Responding to Criticism

Underemployment and Its Effects on Their (Transnational) Children

Transnational Mothers' Relationship with their Children

Inability to Fulfill Their Role of Mothers in Morocco

Hope for Being a "Good" Mom in Europe

Discussion/Conclusion

Chapter 9: Between and Betwixt - Positioning Nannies as Mothers: Perspectives from Durban, South Africa

Theorizing About Motherhood and Mothering

Contextualising Family Life in South Africa

Motherhood in the African Context

Nannies Making Sense of Mothering - Distance Motherhood in South Africa

Economic Necessity: Breadwinning as Mothering

Reconceptualising Motherhood - The Complexities of Distance

Negotiating the Care of "Other People's Children" in the Absence of their Own

Chapter 10: Disrupted Mothering: Narratives of Mothers in Prison

Storying Mothering and Imprisonment

The Study

Narrative Findings

Honesty as the Best Policy

Secrecy in the Best Interests of the Child

A Double-Edged Sword

Maintaining Contact

Managing Contact

Suspending Contact

Who Cares?

Managing Care

Managing Relationships

Chapter 11: "Parenting Like a White Person": Race and Maternal Support Among Marginalized Mothers

Literature Review

Research Questions

Affluent, Married Mothers of Color and Child-Centric Support

Less-Privileged Mothering: Child-Centric Support and "Nurtured Growth" among Single, Lower Income Mothers

Challenging Racial and Maternal Ideologies: Self-Affirming Practices and "Parenting White"

Discussion and Conclusions

Chapter 12: Carework Strategies and Everyday Resistance Among Mothers Who Have Timed-Out of Welfare

Timing Out: The Contours of Hardship

Discourses of Motherhood

The Culture of Work Enforcement

Everyday Resistance

Data and Method

Structuring Employment and Non-Employment

Protecting Children

Securing Resources

Chapter 13: Exploring Black Women's Homeschooling Experiences at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class

Theoretical Framework

Systemic Gendered Racism and Intersectionality

The Ideal Family Type and Controlling Images

Homeschooling: Both Challenge and Resolution

Overcoming Controlling Images

Homeschooling Challenges: Single Mothers

Challenges in Homeschool: Gendered Work and Advocacy

Homeschooling as Empowerment

Chapter 14: Breastmilk Sharing at the Intersections of Race and Risk

Milk Sharing and Risk Narratives

Counter Discourses

Natural Mothering: "Crunchy Milk Sharing"

Mutual Trust

Self-reliance

Legacy Reclamation

Spiritual Embodiment

Community Care

Chapter 15: "We Must Summon the Courage": Black Activist Mothering Against Police Brutality

The Case: Mothers Against Police Brutality

Mothers Against Police Brutality: The Website

Mothers Against Police Brutality: Media Coverage

Continuity and Change: Mothering in an era of post-liberalization

Shifting Role of the State

Marginalizing Mothers through the Biopower of the State and Social Institutions

Post-Liberalization, Austerity Discourse, and Marginalization

Resistance, COLLECTIVE Action, and Activist Mothering

Conclusion.

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Print version record

ISBN:

1-78756-399-5

1-78756-401-0

OCLC:

1055511078