Mothering : ideology, experience, and agency

Author(s)

• Glenn, Evelyn Nakano
• Chang, Grace
• Forcey, Linda Rennie

Bibliographic Information

Mothering : ideology, experience, and agency

edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Rennie Forcey

（Perspectives on gender）

Routledge, 1994

• : pbk
• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780415907750

Description

This volume presents a variety of perspectives on mothering as a socially-constructed relationship focused on caring and nurturing. Crossing a range of ethnicities and classes, it addresses different ideas and practices of mothering, the need to go beyond biological determinism and "family values", and the conditions and resources of mothering. Since mothering is central to the reproduction of social relations - the main vehicle by which people form their first identities and learn their place in society - it constitutes a contested terrain. This work brings together important voices on the most examined and "essential" aspect of female being.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415907767

Description

This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1 Social Constructions of Mothering: A Thematic Overview, Evelyn Nakano Glenn
• Part I Challenging Universalism: Diversity in Mothering
• Chapter 2 Kinscripts: Reflections on Family, Generation, and Culture, Carol B. Stack, Linda M. Burton
• Chapter 3 Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist Theorizing About Motherhood, Patricia Hill Collins
• Chapter 4 Diverted Mothering: Representations of Caregivers of Color in the Age of "Multiculturalism", Sau-ling C. Wong
• Part II Ideology and the Construction of Motherhood
• Chapter 5 An Angle of Seeing: Motherhood in Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood and Alice Walker's Meridian, Barbara Christian
• Chapter 6 Look Who's Talking, Indeed: Fetal Images in Recent North American Visual Culture, E. Ann Kaplan
• Chapter 7 Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a Patriarchal Society, Barbara Katz Rothman
• Part III Decomposing Motherhood: Fusions and Dichotomies
• Chapter 8 Mothers are not Workers: Homework Regulation and the Construction of Motherhood, 1948-1953, Eileen Boris
• Chapter 9 Family Day Care Providers: Dilemmas of Daily Practice, Margaret K. Nelson
• Chapter 10 Working at Motherhood: Chicana and Mexican Immigrant Mothers and Employment, Denise A. Segura
• Part IV The Politics of Mothering: The Dialectics of Struggle and Agency
• Chapter 11 Mothering Under Slavery in the Antebellum South, Stephanie J. Shaw
• Chapter 12 Undocumented Latinas: The new "Employable Mothers", Grace Chang
• Chapter 13 Race and "Value": Black and White Illegitimate Babies, 1945-1965, Rickie Solinger
• Chapter 14 Biology and Community: The Duality of Jewish Mothering in East London, 1880-1939, Susan L. Tananbaum
• Chapter 15 Negotiating Lesbian Motherhood: The Dialectics of Resistance and Accommodation, Ellen Lewin
• Chapter 16 Feminist Perspectives on Mothering and Peace, Linda Rennie Forcey

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Details

• NCID: BA22722170
• ISBN:
  • 9780415907767
  • 0415907756
• LCCN: 93005497
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: x, 387 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ759
  • DC20 : 306.874/3
  • NDC8 : 367.2
  • NDC8 : 367.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motherhood
  • LCSH : Feminist theory
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA1987211X