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

Twenty-first Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
ISBN-10
0231520476
ISBN-13
9780231520478
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2010-09-23
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Andrea O'Reilly

Description

A pioneer of modern motherhood studies, Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the Internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range of disciplines and themes in motherhood studies. She confronts the effects of globalization, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, politicians as mothers, third wave feminism, and the evolving motherhood movement, and she incorporates Chicana, African-American, Canadian, Muslim, queer, low-income, trans, and lesbian perspectives.

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