Mothering in East Asian communities : politics and practices / edited by Patti Duncan and Gina Wong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duncan, Patti, 1970- editor.

Wong, Gina, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood--Political aspects.

Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, [2014]

Summary:

In Mothering in East Asian Communities, Duncan and Wong seamlessly rupture a homogenous identity category--that of the "tiger mom." The editors invoke the works of diverse contributors who critically challenge essentialized identity categories and racialized and sexualized experiences of women of color within the institution of motherhood and practices of mothering. Here, the edited volume grapples with globalization, transnationalism, and capitalism with an East Asian ethno-racial-cultural context. Duncan and Wong offer a personal and political analysis of motherhood that is socially and culturally constructed, shaped by race, class, culture, sexuality, and other social categories. --Roksana Badruddoja, Ph.D., M.B.A., Advanced Assistant Professor of Sociology & Coordinator of Women's and Gender Studies, Manhattan College, New York

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Table of Contents

Dedications

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I: Remembering/Historicizing

1. The Kinship of Violence

2. Cheeseburger Season

3. The Asian Motherhood Stigma

4. Chrysanthemum

5. The Purpose of This Life

6. a wandering daughter's grammar

II: Negotiating Constructions of (East Asian) Motherhood

7. Tiger in the Hornets' Nest

8. Neoliberal Maternal Discourse, Tiger Mothers, and Asian American Mother-Daughter Narrative

9. Korean American Mothering and Model Minority Children

10. Bad Mothers and "Abominable Lovers"

11. Ideology, Gender, and Entrepreneurship

12. Mothering Across Borders

III: East Asian Mothers Moving Toward Social Justice

13. Reproductive Justice and Mothering

14. For the Family

15. Asian American Mothering as Feminist Decolonizing Reproductive Labor

16. Kite

17. Snowman

18. Bringing Visibility to East Asian Mothers in Prison

19. Motherhood and the Race for Sustainability

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-926452-66-6