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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.