Consuming motherhood /
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 of childbirth / Pamela E. Klassen
- Commoditizing kinship in America / Igor Kopytoff
- Caught in the current / Barbara Katz Rothman.