Consuming motherhood / edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak. - ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-309) and index.

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

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Motherhood
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects
Women consumers

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