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Book SynopsisReassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider the transformation of motherhood as both an identity and a role. It examines how bearing and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor and care work change around the globe, emphasizing the limits imposed by race, class, and inequality.
Trade ReviewErgas, Jensen, and Michel have edited an important collection that crystallizes the unequal and uneven transformations in the legal, social, economic, and biological relations of motherhood in the twenty-first century. Together, Reassembling Motherhood explores what we know, pushes the boundaries of knowledge, and raises new questions for further research. The collection is provocative in the best sense. -- Eileen Boris, University of California, Santa Barbara
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Negotiating "Mother" in the Twenty-First Century: Between Choice and Constraint, by Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, and Sonya Michel 1. Certain Mothers, Uncertain Fathers: Placing Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Historical Perspective, by Nara Milanich 2. Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Biological Bottom Line, by Linda G. Kahn and Wendy Chavkin 3. Multiple "Mothers," Many Requirements for Protection: Children's Rights and the Status of Mothers in the Context of International Commercial Surrogacy, by Claire Achmad 4. The Borders of Legal Motherhood: Rethinking Access to Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Europe, by Letizia Palumbo 5. Pregnant Bodies and the Subjects of Rights: The Surrogacy-Abortion Nexus, by Yasmine Ergas 6. The Motherless Fetus: Ultrasound Pictures and Their Magic Disappearing Trick, by Anne Higonnet 7. Contracting for Motherhood: Postadoption Visitation Agreements, by Carol Sanger 8. Relinquishment and Adoption in Tamil Society: Mothers' Experiences with De-kinning, by Pien Bos 9. Marginalized Mothers and Intersecting Systems of Surveillance: Prisons and Foster Care, by Dorothy Roberts 10. Care and Gender, by Martha Albertson Fineman 11. The Double Lives of Transnational Mothers, by Sonya Michel and Gabrielle Oliveira 12. Euro-Orphans and the Stigmatization of Migrant Motherhood, by Helma Lutz 13. The New Maternalism: Children First; Women Second, by Jane Jenson Afterword: Crossing into the Future, by Alice Kessler-Harris Contributors Index
