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Title Reassembling motherhood : procreation and care in a globalized world / edited by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, and Sonya Michel.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction. Negotiating â#x80;#x9C;Motherâ#x80;#x9D; in the Twenty-First Century: Between Choice and Constraint, by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, and Sonya Michel; 1. Certain Mothers, Uncertain Fathers: Placing Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Historical Perspective, by Nara Milanich; 2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Biological Bottom Line, by Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin.
3. Multiple â#x80;#x9C;Mothers, â#x80;#x9D; Many Requirements for Protection: Childrenâ#x80;#x99;s Rights and the Status of Mothers in the Context of International Commercial Surrogacy, by Claire Achmad4. The Borders of Legal Motherhood: Rethinking Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe, by Letizia Palumbo; 5. Pregnant Bodies and the Subjects of Rights: The Surrogacyâ#x80;#x93;Abortion Nexus, by Yasmine Ergas; 6. The Motherless Fetus: Ultrasound Pictures and Their Magic Disappearing Trick, by Anne Higonnet; 7. Contracting for Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, by Carol Sanger.
8. Relinquishment and Adoption in Tamil Society: Mothersâ#x80;#x99; Experiences with De-kinning, by Pien Bos9. Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care, by Dorothy Roberts; 10. Care and Gender, by Martha Albertson Fineman; 11. The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers, by Sonya Michel and Gabrielle Oliveira; 12. Euro-Orphans and the Stigmatization of Migrant Motherhood, by Helma Lutz; 13. The New Maternalism: Children First; Women Second, by Jane Jenson; Afterword: Crossing into the Future, by Alice Kessler-Harris; Contributors; Index.
Summary Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe, emphasizing the limits imposed by race, class, and inequality.
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Subject Motherhood.
Motherhood.
Human reproductive technology.
Human reproductive technology.
Child rearing.
Child rearing.
Families.
Families.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Motherhood.
Assisted reproductive technology.
Added Author Ergas, Yasmine, editor.
Jenson, Jane, editor.
Michel, Sonya, 1942- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Reassembling motherhood. New York : Columbia University Press, [2017] 9780231170505 (DLC) 2017005586
ISBN 9780231538077 (electronic book)
0231538073 (electronic book)
0231170505
9780231170505
9780231170505 (hardcover alkaline paper)