The globalization of motherhood : deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care / / edited by Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree Maher

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459212103321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-96289-1; 1-282-78182-0; 9786612781827; 0-203-85051-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Collana: Routledge research in comparative politics
• Altri autori (Persone): ChavkinWendy; MaherJaneMaree
• Disciplina: 306.8743
• Soggetti: Motherhood; Motherhood - Political aspects; Globalization; Mothers - Social conditions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and figures; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 The globalization of motherhood; 2 Motherhood: reproduction and care; Part II: Cross national care labour; 3 Mothers on the move: Children's education and transnational mobility in global-city Singapore; 4 Stratified workers/stratified mothers: Migration policies and citizenship among Ecuadorian immigrant women; Part III: Transnational adoption; 5 Intercountry adoption as globalized motherhood; 6 Transnational adoption and the transnationalization of motherhood: rethinking abandonment, adoption and returnPart IV: ART Across borders; 7 Motherhood jeopardized: reproductive technologies in Indian communities; 8 Divided mothers: changing global inequalities of 'nature' and 'nurture'; 9 'Assisted' motherhood in global Dubai: reproductive tourists and their helpers; Part V: Conclusion; 10 Rights as recourse: globalized motherhood and human rights; 11 Epilogue: ; mothering forward?; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a host of new medical technologies has led to the ""globalization of motherhood"". This book brings together research from the Global North and the Global South to illuminate how contemporary motherhood is being changed by the processes of globalization. It locates declining fertility and desire for motherhood in the context of female employment, the development of the global mark