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December 2012
386 pages $34.95
978-1-927335-07-9
Demeter Press
Email: info@demeterpress.org
New Book Examines What Mothers Need Today - YFile - Jan 17, 2013
Table of Contents
Introduction: What Do Mothers Need? - Andrea O’Reilly
1. Redefining Motherhood
Moms Under Surveillance: Noticing and Challenging the Idea of “The Good Mother”
- Fiona Joy Green
Rebelling Against “Mom”: Finding Fulfillment Beyond the Media’s Myths of Motherhood
- Estelle Sobel Erasmus
What Mothers Need: For Parenting to Get Under Control - Margaret K. Nelson
Bait and Switch: Moving on from “Mommy Madness” - Judith Warner
Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century
- Andrea O’Reilly
Matroreform: Reforming Mothering / Reforming Motherhood - Gina Wong
2. Empowering Mothers
Mothers and the Military: What It’s Like and How It Needs to Be - Paula J. Caplan
What More Do You People Want? The Unique Needs of Aboriginal Mothers in a Modern Context
- Dawn Memee Lavell-Harvard
What Do Mothers Need? Money - Pat Gowens
What Do South Asian Mothers Need? Negotiating Culture, Family and Selfhood
- Jasjit K. Sangha
3. Mothers, Family, Children and Families: Health and Well-Being
What Do Mothers Need? Midwives - Barbara Katz Rothman
DisAbled Mothers and the 21st Century: Finding Empowerment through Activism
- Jewelles Smith
Toward a Feminist Analysis of Motherhood, Family, and Food Allergies
- Heather Hewett
4. Mothers, Education and Social Change
(Cheesy) Mami Issues and Representations - Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo
Influencing Evolution Through an Evolving Revolution
- Lorri P. Slepian and Laurie N. Sylla
In the Scholarly Way: Marking Generations of Inroads to Empowered Indigenous Mothering
- Jennifer Brant and Kim Anderson
Ripe for Revolution - Gwen Lewis
5. Mothers, Partners and Parenting
Shared Parenting and Challenges for Maternal Autonomy - Susan B. Boyd
What do Mothers Need? Not to Give up on Their Own Ambitions and Persistence in Securing Partner Participation in Family Life - D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein
Beyond Baby Mama Drama: What Black Single Mothers Expect from the Fathers of their Children - Wanda Thomas Bernard
“Blurred Lines and Grey Flecks”: Breadwinning Mothers, Caregiving Fathers, and a Dilemma of Gender “Equality” in Care - Andrea Doucet
6. Mothers and Work
Thoughts on the Implications of “Opting Out” for Motherhood and Mothers’ Movements
- Pamela Stone
Mothers on a Tightrope: Finding Balance with Everything on the Line - Kuae Kelch Mattox
At the Core of the Work/Life Balance Myth: Motherhood and Family Dinners
- Amber E. Kinser
What Mothers and Early Childhood Educators Need, Nut Don’t Always Get: Competing(?) Voices on Childcare in Changing Rural Economies
- Patrizia Albanese, Megan Butryn, Louisa Hawkins, and Courtney Manion
What Mothers Want: Workplace Flexibility - Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Contributors
