The Routledge Companion to Motherhood

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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 Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, literature, communication studies, sociology, women’s and gender studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy, and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Section I Maternal theory 1 Maternal theory: patriarchal motherhood and empowered mothering 2 Feminist mothering 3 Matricentric feminism: a feminism for mothers Section II Mothering through difference: hearing the voices of marginalized mothers 4 Queering and querying motherhood 5 Disabled mothers 6 Mothering while Black: strengths and vulnerabilities in a sociopolitical racial context of structural inequality 7 Welfare mothers in the United States 8 Indigenous mothering: birthing the nation from resistance to revolution 9 Voluntarily childless women: a look at Western society and the definition of motherhood Section III Mothers, mothering, culture, and art 10 Mediated celebrity motherhood: representing the norms, values, and practices promoted by and through celebrity moms 11 Feminist art and motherhood: an overview 12 Religions and mothers 13 Mothers and music 14 Matrifocal voices in literature 15 Motherhood memoirs Section IV Mothering and health 16 Beyond disordered brains and mother blame: critical issues in autism and mothering 17 No fixed address: the everyday health challenges of mothers living in an emergency homeless shelter 18 Midwifery in historical and contemporary perspective: the collusion of race, class, and gender 19 Mothers in prison: matricentric feminist criminology 20 Abused women’s mothering experiences: making the invisible visible Section V Mothering, families, and domestic space 21 From home to house: neoliberalism, mothering, and the de-domestication of the private sphere? 22 Mothering or parenting? 23 Homing in on domestic space: the boundaries and potential of home-making 24 Configuring the mother-daughter dyad 25 Mothers and sons Section VI Mothering and work 26 Mothers and work: social reproduction and the labours of motherhood 27 The lasting impacts of “The Opt Out Revolution”: disciplining working mothers 28 Shifting gender norms and childcare in Canada 29 Poor and working-class mothers Section VII Mothering, economics, and globalization 30 Mothering, neoliberalism, and globalization 31 Mothering and the economy 32 Transnational motherhood: conceptualizing ideas of care here and there 33 Mothering, urbanization, and Africa Section VIII Mothering, governance, and politics 34 Formal governance of and by mothers: mothers, public policy, and law 35 Mothering and politics 36 The criminalization and incarceration of mothers in Canada and the United States 37 The governance of mothers Section IX Mothering and activism 38 The politics of motherhood: maternal appeals in the public sphere 39 Mothering and activism 40 Reproductive justice as environmental justice: contexts, coalitions, and cautions 41 Motherhood and the struggle for reproductive justice Contributors Index