Ideologies and technologies of motherhood : race, class, sexuality, nationalism /
edited by Heléna Ragoné and France Winddance Twine ; foreword by Rayna Rapp.
- xvii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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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Motherhood Mothers--Social conditions Human reproduction--Social aspects Human reproductive technology--Social aspects Minority women Women with social disabilities