Reassembling Motherhood : Procreation and Care in a Globalized World / Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ergas, Yasmine, editor.

Jenson, Jane, editor.

Michel, Sonya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motherhood.

Human reproductive technology.

Child rearing.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9780231538077

0231538073

OCLC:

1046608879