Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood Across Cultural Differences: A Reader

Table of Contents
Dedications
Introduction • Andrea O’Reilly
1 Aboriginal Mothering: Honouring the Past, Nurturing the Future • Jennifer Brant
2 Adoptive Mothers-Mothering • Jennifer Katz and Emily Hunt
3 Recomposing Maternal Identities: Mothering Young Adult Children • Jenny Jones
4 African American Mothering: “Home is Where the Revolution Is” • Andrea O’Reilly
5 Birth Mothers • Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy
6 Disabled Mothers • Gloria Filax and Dena Taylor
7 Mothering in East Asian Communities: Challenges and Possibilities • Patti Duncan and Gina Wong
8 Feminist Mothering • Andrea O’Reilly
9 Mothers on theMove: Immigrant and Refugee Mothers • Julia E. Curry Rodríguez
10 Representing and Transforming Latina/Chicana Mothering • Dorsía Smith Silva
11 Migrant Mothers: Distant Mothering by Choice, Motherly Loss by Force • Shu Ju Ada Cheng
12 Non-Resident Mothers: Refining Our Understandings • Diana L. Gustafson
13 Older Mothers: Trendy and Stigmatized • Karin Sardadvar
14 Mothering in Poverty • Heather Jackson
15 Queer Mothering and the Question of Normalcy • Margaret F. Gibson
16 Rural Mothers • Ellen Buck-McFadyen
17 Her Cape is at the Cleaners: Searching for Single Motherhood in a Culture of Self-Suffciency • Elizabeth Bruno
18 Contextualizing South Asian Motherhood • Jasjit K. Sangha
19 Stay-At-Home Mothers • Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Gayle Letherby
20 Step Mothers • Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton
21 Working Mothers: Performing Economic and Gender Ideologies • Roberta Guerrina
22 Young Mothers and the Age-Old Problems of Sexism, Racism, Classism, Family Dysfunction and Violence • Deborah L. Byrd
23 Contributors’ Biographies