Refiguring motherhood beyond biology

Author(s)

• Cole, Kirsti
• Renegar, Valerie

Bibliographic Information

Refiguring motherhood beyond biology

edited by Valerie Renegar, Kirsti Cole

（Interdisciplinary research in motherhood）

Routledge, 2023

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

- unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Resisting Rhetorics of Mothering, Intensive Mothering, and Biological Determinism VALERIE RENEGAR AND KIRSTI COLE PART I Intersections of Motherhood Figures Beyond Biology 1 Muslim Mothering and Divesting from Whiteness LAMIYAH BAHRAINWALA 2 SBF Seeking Motherhood: An Autoethnographic Journey Toward Pregnancy NATASHA R. HOWARD 3 Re-Imagining Queer Black Motherhood ELIZABETH Y. WHITTINGTON 4 Rhetorically Constructing Motherhood in Pregnancy Loss SARAH STEIMEL 5 Comadrisma, Mamas, and Tias: An Intersectional Chicana Feminist Approach to Comunidad and Reproductive Justice SARAH DE LOS SANTOS UPTON AND LEANDRA H. HERNANDEZ PART II Refiguring Media Representations of Motherhood Beyond Biology 6 Donors and Disclosures: Rhetorical Explanations of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Parenthood in Children's Literature RAE LYNN SCHWARTZ-DUPRE AND STACEY K. SOWARDS 7 Las No-Madres: The Commercialization and Medicalization of Infertility in Quien quiere ser madre CATHERINE BOURLAND ROSS AND BAILEY BARLOW 8 The Limitations of (Privileged) Maternal Appeals: Sandra Steingraber's Constructions of Mothering in a Toxic Environment MOLLIE K. MURPHY 9 Ableism and Motherhood: Invisible Illness and Moral Implications of "Good" Mothering ELIZABETH L. SPRADLEY 10 "'But This is Supposed to be the Happiest Time of my Life!': The Neoliberal Turn in Women's Discourses of Postpartum in Our Bodies, Ourselves" JENNIFER ROME KRUSE 11 Spiritual Mothers: Evangelical Practices of Mothering in the 21st Century SARAH KORNFIELD PART III Refiguring the Rhetoric of Motherhood Beyond Biology 12 Reconceptualizing "Maternity" to Recognize Men: Images of Pregnant Trans Men as Visual Argument ERIKA M. THOMAS 13 A Visual Definition of Caregiving: Caring About, Caring for, and the Feminization of Care RACHEL D. DAVIDSON AND LARA C. STACHE 14 #MotherofExiles: Gender and Race in Motherhood Appeals to Protest Family Separation Policies HEIDI HAMILTON 15 "Good" Mothering and the Question of Migrant Mothers at the Border KATHERINE J. HAMPSTEN 16 Challenges to Neoliberal Parenting and the Rise of the Ideal Stepmother VALERIE RENEGAR AND KIRSTI COLE Afterword SARA HAYDEN AND JENNIFER L. BORDA Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BD05362944
• ISBN:
  • 9781032318660
• LCCN: 2022034320
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 245p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ759
  • DC23 : 306.874/3
  • DC23 : 306.8743
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Motherhood -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Mothers
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BC02330139