Twenty-first Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

Edited by Andrea O'Reilly

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September, 2010
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Introduction, by Andrea O’Reilly

Part I: Experience

1. Chicana Mothering in the Twenty-first Century: Challenging Stereotypes and Transmitting Culture, by Jessica M. Vasquez

2. Muslim Motherhood: Traditions in Changing Contexts, by Gail Murphy-Geiss

3. Mothering in Fear: How Living in an Insecure-Feeling World Affects Parenting, by Ana Villalobos

4. Mother-Talk: Conversations with Mothers of Female-to-Male Transgender Children, by Sarah F. Pearlman

5. Queer Parenting in the New Millennium: Resisting Normal, by Rachel Epstein

6. Contemporary Mothering Practices in the Context of HIV and AIDS: A South African Case, by Thenjiwe Magwaza

Part II: Identity

7. Ambivalence of the Motherhood Experience, by Ivana Brown

8. Supermothers on Film; or, Maternal Melodrama in the Twenty-first Century, by Adrienne McCormick

9. Juno or Just Another Girl? Young Breeders and a New Century of Racial Politics of Motherhood, by Mary Thompson

10. Taking Off the Maternal Lens: Engaging with Sara Ruddick on Men and Mothering, by Andrea Doucet

11. Reproducing Possibilities: Androgenesis and Mothering Human Identity, by Deirdre M. Condit

Part III: Policy

12. Mothers of the Global Welfare State: How Neoliberal Globalization Affects Working Mothers in Sweden and Canada, by Honor Brabazon

13. The Erosion of College Access for Low-Income Mothers, by A. Fiona Pearson

14. Academic Life Balance for Mothers: Pipeline or Pipe Dream?, by Michele L. Vancour and William M. Sherman

15. Exclusive Breastfeeding and Work Policies in Eldoret, Kenya, by Violet Naanyu

16. Brown Bodies, White Eggs: The Politics of Cross-racial Gestational Surrogacy, by Laura Harrison

17. What Will Become of Us? New Biotechnologies and the Need for Maternal Leadership, by Enola G. Aird

Part IV: Agency

18. From “Choice” to Change: Rewriting the Script of Motherhood as Maternal Activism, by Judith Stadtman Tucker

19. The Mothers’ Movement: The Challenges of Coalition Building in the Twenty-first Century, by Patrice DiQuinzio

20. Political Labeling of Mothers: An Obstacle to Equality in Politics, by Marsha Marotta

21. Racially Conscious Mothering in the “Colorblind” Century: Implications for African American Motherwork, by Camille Wilson Cooper

22. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Mothering on the Internet, by May Friedman

23. Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the Twenty-first Century, by Andrea O’Reilly

Related Subjects

• Social Work and the Family
• Women's Studies

About the Author

Andrea O'Reilly is associate professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University and the editor or coeditor of more than fourteen books on motherhood. She is the author of Toni Morrison and Motherhood: A Politics of the Heart and Rocking the Cradle: Thoughts on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering. She is also the founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, formerly the Association for Research on Mothering and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, formerly the Journal of the Association for Research and Mothering.

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