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  • The Routledge Companion to Motherhood

    Series series Routledge Companions to Gender
    Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally.This Routledge Companionis the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and ... Read more

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  • Mothering Rhetorics

    Edited by Lynn O'Brien Hallstein ...
    Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look at how exploring mothering rhetorics – the rhetorics of reproduction (rhetorics about the reproductive function of women/mothers) and reproducing rhetorics (the rhetorical reproduction of ideological ... Read more

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  • Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context

    Challenges, Strategies, and Possibilities

    Contributors detail what it means to be an academic mother and to think about academic motherhood, while also exploring both the personal and specific institutional challenges academic women face, the multifaceted strategies different academic women are implementing to manage those challenges, and investigating different theoretical possibilities for how we think about academic motherhood. ... Read more

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  • Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice

    Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction

    Women who came of age in the late twentieth century were raised in the era of choice; they grew up believing that reproductive decision-making is a political right, a responsibility of women living the successes of second wave feminism, and under their control. Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice: Explorations into Discourses of Reproduction explores contemporary maternity both within and ... Read more

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  • Bikini-Ready Moms

    Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body

    Series series SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
    Argues that expectations for mothering include a new core principle of "body work."Winner of the 2016 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG)The requirements of "good" motherhood used to primarily involve the care of children, but now contemporary mothers are also pressured to become bikini-ready immediately postpartum. Lynn ... Read more

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    A Reader

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, the first-ever Reader on the subject matter, examines the meaning and practice of mothering/ motherhood from a multitude of maternal perspectives. The Reader includes 22 chapters on the following maternal identities: Aboriginal, Adoptive, At-Home, Birth, Black, Disabled, East-Asian, Feminist, Immigrant/Refuge, Latina/Chicana, Poor/Low ... Read more

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  • Maternal Theory

    Essential Readings, The 2nd Edition

    Edited by Andrea O’Reilly ...
    Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, The Second Edition of Maternal Theory: Essential Readings introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 60 chapters the 2nd edition includes two sections: the first with the classic texts by ... Read more

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  • Twenty-first Century Motherhood

    Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

    Edited by Andrea O'Reilly ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • Lesbian Mothers

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    by Ellen Lewin ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children's fathers and sperm donors; how ... Read more

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  • Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Melinda Vandenbeld Giles ...
    Neoliberal policies and austerity measures have unequivocally altered the landscape of women’s lives globally. The most detrimental effect has been on mothers as they are faced with increasing responsibility and decreasing resources. Despite mothers being the primary producers, consumers, and reproducers of the neoliberal world, their centrality has been largely silenced within economic discourse. ... Read more

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  • Six Lenses for Anti-Oppressive Education

    Partial Stories, Improbable Conversations (Second Edition)

    Edited by Kevin K. Kumashiro, Bic Ngo ...
    Series Book 468 - Counterpoints
    This book spotlights six themes or «lenses» for understanding and analyzing education and its relation to oppression and anti-oppressive transformation. It brings together multiple perspectives on anti-oppressive education from various contexts, including K-12 schools, teacher education programs, postsecondary institutions, and community-based organizations. The book provides an array of practical ... Read more

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  • Confronting Postmaternal Thinking

    Feminism, Memory, and Care

    There is a deep cultural anxiety around public expressions of maternalism and the application of maternal values to society as a whole. Julie Stephens examines why postmaternal thinking has become so influential in recent decades and why there has been a growing unease with maternal forms of subjectivity and maternalist perspectives. In moving beyond policy definitions, which emphasize the ... Read more

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