Refiguring motherhood beyond biology
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Refiguring motherhood beyond biology
(Interdisciplinary research in motherhood)
Routledge, 2023
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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