Mothering: Ideology, Experience, and Agency

ISBN-13: 9780415907767 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 288 str.

Evelyn N. Glenn; Linda Rennie Forcey; Grace Chang

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"[Recommended] to those interested in how mothering is viewed through diverse eyes and constructed in varying circumstances." -- Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, Linda Rennie Forcey