Mothers and Children

by Chase, Susan E.; Rogers, Mary F.

• ISBN13: 9780813528755
• ISBN10: 0813528755
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Author Biography

Susan E. Chase teaches sociology and women's studies at the University of Tulsa. Mary F. Rogers teaches sociology and women's studies at the University of West Florida

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART 1 Social Constructions of Motherhood
Motherhood and Feminism	3	(27)
A Mother's Story	21	(4)
Alix Kates Shulman
A Mother's Story	25	(5)
Joy Harjo
``Good'' Mothers and ``Bad'' Mothers	30	(30)
Investing in the Future	48	(4)
Jillynn Stevens
On Being the ``Bad'' Mother of an Autistic Child	52	(8)
Jane Taylor McDonnell
The Institution and Experience of Motherhood	60	(26)
She's Leaving Home	78	(3)
Sylvia Pashkin
Reflections of a Feminist Mom	81	(5)
Jeannine O. Howitz
Fatherlessness, Men, and Mothering	86	(29)
Parenting in Transition	103	(5)
Scott Coltrane
The Materiality of Theory	108	(1)
R. W. Connell
A Geometry of Lilies	109	(6)
Steven Harvey
PART 2 Maternal Bodies
Mothers, Sexuality, and Eros	115	(29)
Mother and Child: The Erotic Bond	134	(10)
Lynda Marin
Pregnancy and Childbirth	144	(30)
Childbirth with Power	163	(5)
Barbara Katz Rothman
Childbirth with Fear	168	(6)
Kathryn S. March
Family Making and Reproductive Technologies	174	(29)
Adoption Rights and Reproductive Wrongs	190	(6)
Elizabeth Bartholet
A Tale of Scientific Pregnancy	196	(7)
Lila Abu-Lughod
PART 3 Mothering in Everyday Life
Mothers and Children over the Life Course	203	(31)
I Am a Feminist	221	(2)
Rachel Clift
Thinking about Jennifer	223	(5)
Barbara Hillyer
I Am My Mother's Keeper	228	(6)
Judy Dothard Simmons
Othermothering	234	(25)
The Godmother Network	249	(2)
Elena Featherston
``Why Do White People Have Vaginas?''	251	(8)
Maureen T. Reddy
Mothering as Political Action	259	(24)
Statement to the Court	273	(2)
Martha Boesing
Sometimes the Road Gets Lonely	275	(8)
Dollie Burwell
Epilogue	283	(6)
Notes	289	(38)
Selected Bibliography	327	(8)
Index	335