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Ideologies and technologies of motherhood : race, class, sexuality, nationalism / edited by Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine ; foreword by Rayna Rapp.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2000Description: xvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415921104
  • 9780415921107
  • 0415921090
  • 9780415921091
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743
LOC classification:
  • HQ759. I33 2000
Contents:
Introduction: motherhood on the fault lines / Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine -- Ideologies of motherhood and kinship in U.S. Adoption / Christine Ward Gailey -- Of likeness and difference: how race is being transfigured by gestational surrogacy / Heléna Ragoné -- Bearing blackness in Britain: the meaning of racial difference for white birth mothers of African-descent children / France Winddance Twine -- Baby things as fetishes? memorial goods, simulacra, and the "realness" problem of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne -- Missing motherhood: infertility, technology, and poverty in Egyptian women's lives / Marcia Claire Inhorn -- "Real motherhood," class, and children with disabilities / Gail Landsman -- Nonbiological mothers and the legal boundaries of motherhood: an analysis of California law / Susan Dalton -- Uno hace cualquier cosa por los hijos: motherwork and politics in Sandinista Nicaragua / Diana Mulinari -- Mythical mothers and dichotomies of good and evil: homeless mothers in the United States / Deborah Connolly.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-324) and index.

Introduction: motherhood on the fault lines / Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine -- Ideologies of motherhood and kinship in U.S. Adoption / Christine Ward Gailey -- Of likeness and difference: how race is being transfigured by gestational surrogacy / Heléna Ragoné -- Bearing blackness in Britain: the meaning of racial difference for white birth mothers of African-descent children / France Winddance Twine -- Baby things as fetishes? memorial goods, simulacra, and the "realness" problem of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne -- Missing motherhood: infertility, technology, and poverty in Egyptian women's lives / Marcia Claire Inhorn -- "Real motherhood," class, and children with disabilities / Gail Landsman -- Nonbiological mothers and the legal boundaries of motherhood: an analysis of California law / Susan Dalton -- Uno hace cualquier cosa por los hijos: motherwork and politics in Sandinista Nicaragua / Diana Mulinari -- Mythical mothers and dichotomies of good and evil: homeless mothers in the United States / Deborah Connolly.

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