ABSTRACT
Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally.
This Routledge Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, literature, communication studies, sociology, women’s and gender studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives.
This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy, and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|44 pages
Maternal theory
section Section II|70 pages
Mothering through difference
chapter 6|14 pages
Mothering while Black
chapter 9|9 pages
Voluntarily childless women
section Section III|72 pages
Mothers, mothering, culture, and art
chapter 10|14 pages
Mediated celebrity motherhood
section Section IV|64 pages
Mothering and health
chapter 16|10 pages
Beyond disordered brains and mother blame
chapter 17|11 pages
No fixed address
chapter 18|10 pages
Midwifery in historical and contemporary perspective
section Section V|62 pages
Mothering, families, and domestic space
chapter 21|5 pages
From home to house
section Section VI|42 pages
Mothering and work
section Section VII|56 pages
Mothering, economics, and globalization
section Section VIII|48 pages
Mothering, governance, and politics
section Section IX|45 pages
Mothering and activism