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Mothering : [electronic resource] ideology, experience, and agency / edited by Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang, and Linda Rennie Forcey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)Publication details: New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: x, 387 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0415907764 (pbk.)
  • 9780415907767 (pbk.)
  • 0415907756
  • 9780415907750
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.874/3 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ759 .M883 1994
Online resources:
Contents:
Social constructions of mothering : a thematic overview / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Challenging universalism : diversity in mothering. Kinscripts : reflections on family, generation, and culture / Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton -- Shifting the center : race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- Diverted mothering : representations of caregivers of color in the age of "multiculturalism" / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Ideology and the construction of motherhood. An angle of seeing : motherhood in Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood and Alice Walker's Meridian / Barbara Christian -- Look who's talking, indeed : fetal images in recent North American visual culture / E. Ann Kaplan -- Beyond mothers and fathers : ideology in a patriarchal society / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Decomposing motherhood : fusions and dichotomies. Mothers are not workers : homework regulation and the construction of motherhood, 1948-1953 / Eileen Boris -- Family day care providers : dilemmas of daily practice / Margaret K. Nelson.
(Cont.) Working at motherhood : Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment / Denise A. Segura -- The politics of mothering : the dialectics of struggle and agency. Mothering under slavery in the antebellum South / Stephanie J. Shaw -- Undocumented Latinas : the new "employable mothers" / Grace Chang -- Race and "value" : black and white illegitimate babies, 1945-1965 / Rickie Solinger -- Biology and community : the duality of Jewish mothering in East London, 1880-1939 / Susan L. Tananbaum -- Negotiating lesbian motherhood : the dialectics of resistance and accommodation / Ellen Lewin -- Feminist perspectives on mothering and peace / Linda Rennie Forcey.
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Social constructions of mothering : a thematic overview / Evelyn Nakano Glenn -- Challenging universalism : diversity in mothering. Kinscripts : reflections on family, generation, and culture / Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton -- Shifting the center : race, class, and feminist theorizing about motherhood / Patricia Hill Collins -- Diverted mothering : representations of caregivers of color in the age of "multiculturalism" / Sau-ling C. Wong -- Ideology and the construction of motherhood. An angle of seeing : motherhood in Buchi Emecheta's Joys of Motherhood and Alice Walker's Meridian / Barbara Christian -- Look who's talking, indeed : fetal images in recent North American visual culture / E. Ann Kaplan -- Beyond mothers and fathers : ideology in a patriarchal society / Barbara Katz Rothman -- Decomposing motherhood : fusions and dichotomies. Mothers are not workers : homework regulation and the construction of motherhood, 1948-1953 / Eileen Boris -- Family day care providers : dilemmas of daily practice / Margaret K. Nelson.

(Cont.) Working at motherhood : Chicana and Mexican immigrant mothers and employment / Denise A. Segura -- The politics of mothering : the dialectics of struggle and agency. Mothering under slavery in the antebellum South / Stephanie J. Shaw -- Undocumented Latinas : the new "employable mothers" / Grace Chang -- Race and "value" : black and white illegitimate babies, 1945-1965 / Rickie Solinger -- Biology and community : the duality of Jewish mothering in East London, 1880-1939 / Susan L. Tananbaum -- Negotiating lesbian motherhood : the dialectics of resistance and accommodation / Ellen Lewin -- Feminist perspectives on mothering and peace / Linda Rennie Forcey.

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