Mothering : Ideology, Experience, and Agency

404 Pages·1994·38.42 MB·English

by  Evelyn Nakano Glenn

deology, Experience, and Agency
Edited by
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang,
and Linda Rennie Forcey
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Ideology, Experience, and Agency
PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER
Editorial Board:
Myra Marx Ferree, University ofConnecticut
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othering
Ideology, Experience, and Agency
Edited by
Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Grace Chang,
and Linda Rennie Forcey
ROUTLEDGE
New York • London
Published in 1994 by
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Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mothering : ideology, experience & agency / edited by Evelyn Nakano
Glenn, Grace Changand Linda Rennie Forcey.
p. cm.—(Perspectives on gender)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-415-90775-6. - ISBN 0-415-90776-4 (pbk.)
1. Motherhood. 2. Feminist theory. I. Glenn, Evelyn Nakano.
II. Chang, Grace. III. Forcey, Linda Rennie. IV. Title: Mothering,
ideology, experience and agency. V. Series: Perspectives on gender
(New York, N.Y.)
HQ759.M883 1994
306.874'3-dc20 93-5497
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CONTENTS
Preface ix
Chapter
I
SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MOTHERING: A
THEMATIC OVERVIEW
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
Part
I
CHALLENGING UNIVERSALISM:
DIVERSITY IN MOTHERING
Chapter 2
KINSCRIPTS: REFLECTIONS ON FAMILY,
GENERATION. AND CULTURE 33
Carol B. Stack and Linda M. Burton
Chapter 3
SHIFTING THE CENTER; RACE, CLASS, AND FEMINIST
THEORIZING ABOUT MOTHERHOOD 45
Patricia Hill Collins
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Chapter 4
DIVERTED MOTHERING: REPRESENTATIONS OF
CAREGIVERS OF COLOR IN THE AGE OF
"MULTICULTURALISM" 67
Wong
Sau-IIng C.
Part
II
IDEOLOGY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
MOTHERHOOD
Chapter 5
AN ANGLE OF SEEING: MOTHERHOOD IN BUCHI
EMECHETA'S jOYS OF MOTHERHOOD AND ALICE
WALKER'S MERIDIAN 95
Barbara Christian
Chapter 6
LOOK WHO'S TALKING. INDEED: FETAL IMAGES IN
RECENT NORTH AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE 121
E. Ann Kaplan
Chapter 7
BEYOND MOTHERS AND FATHERS: IDEOLOGY IN A
PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY 139
Barbara Katz Rothman
Part
III
DECOMPOSING MOTHERHOOD:
FUSIONS AND DICHOTOMIES
Chapter 8
MOTHERS ARE NOT WORKERS: HOMEWORK
REGULATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
MOTHERHOOD, 1948-1953 161
Eileen Boris
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Contents VII
Chapter 9
FAMILY DAY CARE PROVIDERS: DILEMMAS OF
DAILY PRACTICE 181
Margaret K. Nelson
Chapter 10
WORKING AT MOTHERHOOD: CHICANA AND
MEXICAN IMMIGRANT MOTHERS AND EMPLOYMENT 211
Denise A. Segura
Part IV
THE POLITICS OF MOTHERING: THE DIALECTICS
OF STRUGGLE AND AGENCY
Chapter
1
MOTHERING UNDER SLAVERY IN THE
ANTEBELLUM SOUTH 237
Stephanie Shaw
J.
" Chapter
1
UNDOCUMENTED LATINAS: THE NEW
"EMPLOYABLE MOTHERS" 259
Grace Chang
Chapter 13
RACE AND "VALUE": BLACK AND WHITE
ILLEGITIMATE BABIES, 1945-1965 287
Rickie Solinger
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Chapter 14
BIOLOGY AND COMMUNITY: THE DUALITY OF
JEWISH MOTHERING IN EAST LONDON, 1880-1939 311
Susan L. Tananbaum
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Chapter 15
NEGOTIATING LESBIAN MOTHERHOOD: THE
DIALECTICS OF RESISTANCE AND
ACCOMMODATION 333
Ellen Lewin
Chapter 16
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON MOTHERING
AND PEACE 355
Linda Rennie Force/
Index 377
Contributors 385