Reassembling Motherhood

Procreation and Care in a Globalized World

Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel

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Columbia University Press
10 October 2017

Gender studies: women; Sociology: family & relationships; Social welfare & social services; Central government policies

"The word ""mother"" 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 matter of 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 and prevent others from caring for their children.

Reassembling Motherhood brings together contributors from across the disciplines to consider 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 as these multifaceted changes have led to both the fragmentation and reassembling of motherhood."

Edited by: Yasmine Ergas, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780231170505
ISBN 10: 0231170505
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 10 October 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yasmine Ergas is the director of the gender and public policy specialization at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Jane Jenson is professor of political science at the Universite de Montreal. Sonya Michel is professor emerita of history, American studies, and women's studies at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Reviews for Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World

Ergas, 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 21st 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, The University of California, Santa Barbara