deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care /
edited by Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree Maher.
New York :
Routledge,
2010.
1 online resource (viii, 271 pages)
Routledge research in comparative politics ;
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The globalization of motherhood / Wendy Chavkin -- Motherhood: reproduction and care / JaneMaree Maher -- Cross national care labour. Mothers on the move: children's education and transnational mobility in global-city Singapore / Brenda S.A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang -- Stratified workers/stratified mothers: migration policies and citizenship among Ecuadorian immigrant women / Gioconda Herrera -- Transnational adoption. Intercountry adoption as globalized motherhood / Peter Selman -- Transnational adoption and the transnationalization of motherhood: rethinking abandonement, adoption and return / Barbara Yngvesson -- ART across borders. Motherhood jeopardized: reproductive technologies in Indian communities / Sayantani Dasgupta and Shamita Das Dasgupta -- Divided mothers: changing global inequalities of 'nature' and 'nurture' / Margaret Jolly -- 'Assisted' motherhood in global Dubai: reproductive tourists and their helpers / Marcia C. Inhorn -- Conclusion. Rights as recourse: globalized motherhood and human rights / Joanne Csete and Reilly Anne Willis -- Epilogue: mothering forward? / Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree Maher.
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Brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how contemporary motherhood is changed by the processes of globalization.
Globalization of motherhood.
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Globalization.
Motherhood-- Research.
Globalization.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- International Relations-- General.