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The Globalization of Motherhood

Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care

The Globalization of Motherhood

Deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care

Edited ByWendy Chavkin, JaneMaree Maher
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 13 September 2010
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9780203850510
Pages 192 pages
eBook ISBN 9780203850510
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Chavkin, W. (Ed.), Maher, J. (Ed.). (2010). The Globalization of Motherhood. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203850510

The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the "globalization of motherhood".

This book brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how contemporary motherhood is being changed by the processes of globalization. It locates declining fertility and desire for motherhood in the context of female employment, the development of the global market in reproductive technologies, the rising transnational labour market demand for feminized carework, and changing family forms. Focusing on the impacts on women who mother- and enable others to do so- across diverse contexts, the book examines the way in which conception, gestation mothering labor and care are being mobilized across national boundaries.

Bringing together demographers, sociologists, lawyers, public health and social theorists, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of globalization studies, development studies, gender studies, feminist politics, political economy, human rights, and social policy.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Introduction
chapter 1|13 pages
The globalization of motherhood
ByWENDY CHAVKIN
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chapter 2|13 pages
Motherhood: reproduction and care
ByJANEMAREE MAHER
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part |2 pages
PART II Cross national care labour
chapter 3|24 pages
Mothers on the move: Children’s education and transnational mobility in global-city Singapore
ByBRENDA S.A. YEOH AND SHIRLENA HUANG
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chapter 4|22 pages
Stratifi ed workers/stratifi ed mothers: Migration policies and citizenship among Ecuadorian immigrant women
ByGIOCONDA HERRERA
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part |2 pages
PART III Transnational adoption
chapter 5|27 pages
Intercountry adoption as globalized motherhood
ByPETER SELMAN
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chapter 6|23 pages
Transnational adoption and the transnationalization of motherhood: rethinking abandonment, adoption and return
ByBARBARA YNGVESSON
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part |2 pages
PART IV ART Across borders
chapter 7|23 pages
Motherhood jeopardized: reproductive technologies in Indian communities
BySAYANTANI DASGUPTA AND SHAMITA DAS DASGUPTA
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chapter 8|26 pages
Divided mothers: changing global inequalities of ‘nature’ and ‘nurture’
ByMARGARET JOLLY
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chapter 9|23 pages
‘Assisted’ motherhood in global Dubai: reproductive tourists and their helpers
ByMARCIA C. INHORN
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part |2 pages
PART V Conclusion
chapter 10|23 pages
Rights as recourse: globalized motherhood and human rights
ByJOANNE CSETE AND REILLY ANNE WILLIS
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chapter 11|4 pages
Epilogue: mothering forward?
ByWENDY CHAVKIN, JANEMAREE MAHER
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