Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood (eBook, PDF)

Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism
Redaktion: Ragone, Helena; Twine, France Winddance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood charts new territory by exploring the notion of motherhood for women of differing classes, races, religions and nations in the light of various strategies and new technologies used to attain motherhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2000
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136779329
• Artikelnr.: 38268728

Autorenporträt

Helena Ragone is Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Massachussetts in Boston. She is co-editor of Situated Lives: Gender and Culture in Everyday Life (Routledge, 1997). France Winddance Twine is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Associate Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Contributors Foreword by Rayna Rapp Acknowledgments Introduction:
Motherhood on the Faultlines-Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine Part
I: Racial Ideologies and Racial Realities 1. Ideologies of Motherhood and
Kinship in U.S. Adoption-Christine Ward Gailey 2. Of Likeness and
Difference: How Race is Being Transfigured by Gestational Surrogacy-Heléna
Ragoné 3. Bearing Blackness in Britain: The Meaning of Racial Difference
for White Birth Mothers of African-Descent Children--France Winddance Twine
Part II: Narratives of Personhood 4. Baby Things as Fetishes? Memorial
Goods, Simulacra, and the Realness Problem of Pregnancy Loss- Linda L.
Layne 5. Missing Motherhood: Infertility, Technology, and Poverty in
Egyptian Women's Lives-Marcia Claire Inhorn 6. Real Motherhood, Class, and
Children with Disabilities-Gail Landsman Part III: Blurred Boundaries:
Legal, Political, and Economic Parameters of Motherhood 7. Non-Biological
Mothers and the Legal Boundaries of Motherhood: An Analysis of California
Law-Susan Dalton 8. Uno hace qualquier cosa por los hijos: Motherwork and
Politics in Sandinista Nicaragua-Diana Mulinari 9. Mythical Mothers and
Dichotomies of Good and Evil: Homeless Mothers in the United States-Deborah
Connolly Afterword by Kristin Luker Bibliography Index