Behind the Lines
Margaret R. Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, Margaret Collins Weitz, Maragret Randolph Higonnet
Häftad
649 kr
Reassembling Motherhood
Procreation and Care in a Globalized World
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 479 kr
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The word "mother" has 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 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 or prevent them 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 during these multifaceted changes, working to fragment and then reassemble the concept of motherhood.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2017-10-10
- Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
- Vikt690 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- Antal sidor336
- FörlagColumbia University Press
- ISBN9780231170505