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Troubling Motherhood ii OXFORD STUDIES IN GENDER AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Series editors: J. Ann Tickner, American University, and Laura Sjoberg, University of Florida Windows of Opportunity Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping How Women Seize Peace Negotiations for Women, Peace, and Security in Political Change Post- Conflict States Miriam J. Anderson Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley Women as Foreign Policy Leaders Gender, Sex, and the Postnational Defense National Security and Gender Politics in Militarism and Peacekeeping Superpower America Annica Kronsell Sylvia Bashevkin The Beauty Trade: Youth, Gender, Gendered Citizenship and Fashion Globalization Understanding Gendered Violence in Angela B. V. 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Kamler Troubling Motherhood Maternality in Global Politics Edited by Lucy B. Hall, Anna L. Weissman, and Laura J. Shepherd 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2020 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Control Number: 2019039705 ISBN 978– 0– 19– 093918– 2 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Integrated Books International, United States of America This book is dedicated to all those who mother, in various ways, and all those who work for their right to do so. vi CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Author Biographies xi Foreword xvii 1. The Global Politics of Maternality 1 Anna L. Weissman and Lucy B. Hall SECTION I: Performances of Motherhood 2. A Mother’s Violence in Global Politics: An Interrogation of Violent Femininity and Motherhood Narratives 17 Katerina Krulisova 3. Protestant Paramilitary Mothering: Mothers and Daughters during the Northern Irish Troubles 36 Sandra M. McEvoy 4. Extending Acts of Motherhood: Storytelling as Resistance to Stigma 51 Jamie J. Hagen 5. Logics of Protection and the Discursive Construction of Refugee Fathers 67 Lucy B. Hall SECTION II: Maternality and the State 6. Bearing Peace and War: Sex, Motherhood, and the Treaty of the Pyrenees 87 Laura Sjoberg 7. Ideal Citizens and Family Values: The Politics of Reproductive Fitness 103 Anna L. Weissman viii 8. Mother Knows Best? Critical Maternal Ethics and the Rape Clause 122 Rebecca Wilson 9. Queering Reproductive Aid 139 Corinne L. Mason 10. Troubling Conceptions of Motherhood: State Feminism and Political Agency of Women in the Global South 156 Anwar Mhajne and Crystal Whetstone SECTION III: Gendered Labor and Maternality 11. Feminist Politics Still Needs Motherhood 179 Amanda D. Watson 12. Privatized Bodies in Public Locations: C- Sections, Toddler Meltdowns, and the Neoliberal Gaze 195 Penny Griffin 13. Raising Children in Strangeness: Cosmopolitan Mothering and Domestic Helpers in Expatriate Families 214 Catherine Goetze 14. Celebrity Global Motherhood: Maternal Care and Cosmopolitan Obligation 233 Annika Bergman Rosamond 15. Earthborn: Maternity and Natality on a Hurting Planet 252 Cara Daggett 16. Speaking from the Margins of Motherhood: A Politics (M)otherwise 273 Sara C. Motta Index 291 [ viii ] Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Lucy: Toni Morrison once wrote, “if there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must be the one to write it.” For me, this is that book. From the early conversations with my co- editors, Laura and Anna, it was clear that this book was destined to be a deeply feminist, collaborative effort, enriched and nourished by bringing together a diversity of scholars. I have immensely enjoyed co- editing this book with Laura and Anna and am so grateful for their enthusiasm, wisdom, and sharp editorial eyes. Also deepest thanks and gratitude to those who have contributed. Reading and editing the chapters have brought me many moments of joy, empathy, and despair (directed toward the patriarchy not at the authors), and the tears that come with them. Finally, I would also like to thank my mother-i n- law, Margo Bonekamp, whose grandmothering of my daughters makes much of this work possible. Anna: I would like to acknowledge my fellow co- editors, Laura and Lucy, for their endless work throughout this project, creatively collaborating across the world, on three different continents. You women are my inspiration. This volume has been an incredible joy, and it has been my utmost pleasure to work with you both, and with our amazing contributors. It’s incredible to think that this wonderful project initially grew from a discussion at the International Feminist Journal of Politics conference in Ohio! This volume would not have been possible without the immense blood, sweat, and tears that our foremothers have put in before us, and we acknowledge this im- measurable debt. Finally, I would like to thank my partner Chris, without whose love, unending support, and cooking, this work would not have been possible. You remind me that the sky is the limit, and I am forever grateful. Laura: I would, above all, like to thank Lucy and Anna for inviting me to join them on this collaborative journey. It has been a creative, wonderful, and joyous experience. I am continually inspired by the fierce intelligence and
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