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An Anthropology of Mothering
Publication Date: December 2011
Anthropology of Mothering: What's "Normal" Mothering
A review by My Real Review, May 8, 2012
December 2011
314 pages $34.95
978-0-9866671-8-3
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An Anthropology of Mothering Table of Contents
Preface
Michelle Walks & Naomi McPherson
Introduction: Identifying an Anthropology of Mothering
-Michelle Walks
Awkward Engagements in Mothering: Embodying and Experimenting in Northwest China
- Kelly Dombroski
FROM WHOM WE CAME – KNOWING OUR FOREMOTHERS
An Evolutionary Motherline: Great Ape Mothers and Hominin Foremothers
- Pat Miller-Schroeder
Burning the Apron Strings: How 21st Century Women Conceptualize Mothering in Comparison to That of Their Own Mothers
– Maya Bhave
Making Mothers: Birth and the Changing Relationships of Mothering in Pango Village, Vanuatu
-Alexandra Widmer
Flows of Language: Intergenerational Connections and Language Transmission among dän k’è (Southern Tutchone) speakers
- Jenanne Ferguson
MOTHERING & HEALTH
Reconceptualising Mothering: Mothers and Infants in Crisis in the Kimberley, Western Australia
- Gaynor Macdonald & T. John Boulton
Medicalized Motherhood: Biomedical and Qur’anic Knowledge Informing Childrearing Practices
- Elizabeth M. Urbanowski
Breastfeeding and the “good mother” ideal in São Paulo, Brazil
- Alanna Rudzik
Breastfeeding, Subjugation, and Empowerment in Rural Guatemala
– Anita Chary, Shom Dasgupta, Sarah Messmer, & Peter Rohloff
AGENCY & EMPOWERED MOTHERING
An Andean Paradigm or Mothering
- Mary Louise Stone
Cape Verdean Student Migrant Mothering and the Pendulum of Power
– Elizabeth Challinor
“The Ascetics of the Home”: Women and the Spiritual (Re)production of Maronite Lebanese Identity in Australia
– Nelia Hyndman-Rizk
Mothering as Ideology and Practice: The Experiences of Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Shubhangi Vaidya
Becoming a ‘Single-Mom’: Featuring Motherhood Over Marital Status Among Malays in Muslim Malaysia
– Audrey Mouser Elegbede
MOTHERING IN THE SHADOWS
Navigating the Tricky Waters of Maternal Militarization: Experiences of Being a Soldier’s Mother in Turkey
- Senem Kaptan
Mothering Woes: ‘Mothering’ and the Mother-Au Pair Relationship
-Anna Kuroczycka Schultes
Mothers in the borderland: child adoption in Misiones province, Argentina
- Moníca Tarducci (translated by: Sabrina Yañez)
Mothering in the Shadow of the United States Correctional System
- Susan Sered & Maureen Norton-Hawk
Afterword
-Naomi McPherson
Author & Editor Bios
Index
