The Routledge Companion to Motherhood

Interdisciplinary and intersectional in emphasis, the Routledge Companion to Motherhood brings together essays on current intellectual themes, issues, and debates, while also creating a foundation for future scholarship and study as the field of Motherhood Studies continues to develop globally. This Routledge Companion is the first extensive collection on the wide-ranging topics, themes, issues, and debates that ground the intellectual work being done on motherhood. Global in scope and including a range of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, literature, communication studies, sociology, women's and gender studies, history, and economics, this volume introduces the foundational topics and ideas in motherhood, delineates the diversity and complexity of mothering, and also stimulates dialogue among scholars and students approaching from divergent backgrounds and intellectual perspectives. This will become a foundational text for academics in Women's and Gender Studies and interdisciplinary researchers interested in this important, complex and rapidly growing topic. Scholars of psychology, sociology or public policy, and activists in both university and workplace settings interested in motherhood and mothering will find it an invaluable guide.

Lynn O'Brien Hallstein, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and an Affiliated Faculty of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author/(co)editor of five books, including Bikini-Ready Moms: Celebrity Profiles, Motherhood, and the Body, which won the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender's 2016 Outstanding Book Award, and has published in variety of feminist and communication journals. Andrea O'Reilly, PhD, is Professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at York University. O'Reilly is founder and director of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, and founder and publisher of Demeter Press. She is the editor/author of 22 books including Matricentric Feminism: Theory, Activism, and Practice (2016). Melinda Vandenbeld Giles is a lecturer in Anthropology and English at Lakehead University (Orillia). Her research focuses on neoliberalism, public policy and homelessness (particularly for mothers) in Ontario. Melinda's publications include her Demeter Press edited volume Mothering in the Age of Neoliberalism, her co-edited volume The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, and her Inanna feminist novel Clara Awake. Melinda's work also appears in many Demeter Press edited collections, JMI (Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement) and Development (Journal of the Society for International Development).

;"Introduction"Section One: Maternal Theory Chapter 1: Maternal Theory: Patriarchal Motherhood and ;Empowered Mothering ;;Chapter 2: Feminist Mothering ; Chapter 3: Matricentric Feminism: A Feminism for Mothers ;;Section Two: Mothering Through Difference: Hearing the Voices of Marginalized Mothers Chapter 4: Queering and Querying Motherhood;Chapter 5: Disabled Mothers;Chapter 6: Mothering While Black: Strengths and Vulnerabilities in a Sociopolitical Racial Context of Structural Inequality ;; Chapter 7: Welfare Mothers in the US ; Chapter 8: Indigenous Mothers: Birthing the Nation from ;Resistance to Revolution ;; Chapter 9: Voluntarily Childless Women: A Look at ;Western Society and the Definition of Motherhood; ;Section Three: Mothers, Mothering, Culture and Art Chapter 10: Mediated Celebrity Motherhood: Representing ;The Norms, Values, and Practices Promoted by and ;through Celebrity Moms;; Chapter 11: Feminist Art and Motherhood: An Overview ; Chapter 12: Religions and Mothers; Chapter 13: Mothers and Music ; Chapter 14: Matrifocal Voices in Literature;Chapter 15: Mothering Memoirs ;Section Four: Mothering and Health Chapter 16: Beyond Disordered Brains and Mother Blame: Critical Issues in Autism and Mothering ; Chapter 17: No Fixed Address: Explicating the Everyday Health Challenges of Women Living in an Emergency Homeless Shelter; Chapter 18: Midwifery in Historical and Contemporary ;Perspective: The Collusion of Race, Class, and Gender;;Chapter 19: Mothers in Prison: Matricentric Feminist ;Criminology;; Chapter 20: Abused Women's Mothering ;Experiences: Making the Invisible Visible;Section Five: Mothering, Families and Domestic Space;Chapter 21: "From Home to House: Neoliberalism, ;Maternal Pedagogy and the De-domestication of the Private ;Sphere?;; Chapter 22: Mothering or Parenting? ;; Chapter 23: Homing in on Domestic Space: The ;Boundaries and Potential of Home-making;Chapter 24: Configuring the Mother-Daughter Dyad ;Chapter 25: Mothers and Sons;Section Six: Mothering and Work Chapter 26: Mothers and Work: Social Reproduction and ;the Labours of Motherhood; ;Chapter 27: The Lasting Impacts of "The Opt Out ;Revolution": Disciplining Working Mothers;; Chapter 28: Shifting Gender Norms and Childcare in ;Canada;; Chapter 29: Poor and Working-Class Mothers ;Section Seven: Mothering, Economics and Globalization; Chapter 30: Mothering, Neoliberalism and Globalization;; Chapter 31: Mothering and the Economy ;;Chapter 32: Transnational Mothering: Conceptualizing; Ideas of Care Here and There;; Chapter 33: Mothering, Urbanization and Africa ;Section Eight: Mothering, Governance and Politics Chapter 34: Formal Governance of and by Mothers: ;Mothers, Public Policy, and Law;; Chapter 35: Mothering and Politics ;Chapter 36: The Criminalization and Incarceration of Mothers in ;Canada and the United States;; Chapter 37: The Governance of Mothers ;Section Nine: Mothering and Activism Chapter 38: The Politics of Motherhood: Maternal Appeals ;in the Public Sphere;; Chapter 39: Mothering and Activism ; Chapter 40: Reproductive Justice as Environmental Justice: ;Contexts, Coalitions, and Cautions ;Chapter 41: Motherhood and the Struggle for Reproductive Justice;;