Ideologies and technologies of motherhood : race, class, sexuality, nationalism /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Ragoné, Helena, Twine, France Winddance, 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2000.
Subjects:	Motherhood. Mothers > Social conditions. Human reproduction > Social aspects. Human reproductive technology > Social aspects. Minority women. Women with social disabilities.

Table of 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.