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Consuming motherhood / edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813534291
  • 9780813534299
  • 0813534305
  • 9780813534305
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.8743 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ759 .C7253 2004
Contents:
Introduction / Janelle S. Taylor -- Motherhood under capitalism / Barbara Katz Rothman -- How infants grow mothers in North London / Daniel Miller -- Maternity and materiality : becoming a mother in consumer culture / Alison J. Clarke -- "What will I do with all the toys now?" : consumption and the signification of kinship in U.S. fostering relationships / Danielle F. Wozniak -- "Too bad you got a lemon" : Peter Singer, mothers of children with disabilities, and the critique of consumer culture / Gail Landsman -- Making memories : trauma, choice, and consumer culture in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne -- Maternal labor in a transnational circuit / Ann Anagnost -- Going "home" : adoption, exclusive belongings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- A fetish is born : sonographers and the making of the public fetus / Janelle S. Taylor -- Consuming childbirth : the qualified commodification of midwifery care / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Mothers between God and mammon : feminist interpretations in childbirth / Pamela E. Klassen -- Commoditizing kinship in America / Igor Kopytoff -- Caught in the current / Barbara Katz Rothman.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.

Introduction / Janelle S. Taylor -- Motherhood under capitalism / Barbara Katz Rothman -- How infants grow mothers in North London / Daniel Miller -- Maternity and materiality : becoming a mother in consumer culture / Alison J. Clarke -- "What will I do with all the toys now?" : consumption and the signification of kinship in U.S. fostering relationships / Danielle F. Wozniak -- "Too bad you got a lemon" : Peter Singer, mothers of children with disabilities, and the critique of consumer culture / Gail Landsman -- Making memories : trauma, choice, and consumer culture in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne -- Maternal labor in a transnational circuit / Ann Anagnost -- Going "home" : adoption, exclusive belongings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- A fetish is born : sonographers and the making of the public fetus / Janelle S. Taylor -- Consuming childbirth : the qualified commodification of midwifery care / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Mothers between God and mammon : feminist interpretations in childbirth / Pamela E. Klassen -- Commoditizing kinship in America / Igor Kopytoff -- Caught in the current / Barbara Katz Rothman.

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