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Reassembling Motherhood - Procreation and Care in a Globalized World (Hardcover)
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Reassembling Motherhood - Procreation and Care in a Globalized World (Hardcover)
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The word "mother" has traditionally meant a woman who bears and
nurtures a child. In recent decades, changes in social norms and
public policy as well as advances in reproductive technologies and
the development of markets for procreation and care have radically
expanded definitions of motherhood. But while maternity has become
a choice for more women, the freedom to make reproductive decisions
is unevenly distributed. Restrictive policies, socioeconomic
disadvantages, cultural mores, and discrimination force some women
into motherhood or prevent them from caring for their children.
Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across
the disciplines to examine the transformation of motherhood as both
an identity and a role. It examines how the processes of bearing
and rearing a child are being restructured as reproductive labor
and care work change around the globe. The authors examine issues
such as artificial reproductive technologies, surrogacy, fetal
ultrasounds, adoption, nonparental care, and the legal status of
kinship, showing how complex chains of procreation and childcare
have simultaneously generated greater liberty and new forms of
constraint. Emphasizing the tension between the liberalization of
procreation and care on the one hand, and the limits to their
democratization due to race, class, and global inequality on the
other, the book highlights debates that have emerged during these
multifaceted changes, working to fragment and then reassemble the
concept of motherhood.
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