03881oam 2200721I 450 991045921210332120200520144314.01-136-96289-11-282-78182-097866127818270-203-85051-310.4324/9780203850510 (CKB)2670000000044703(EBL)557255(OCoLC)664551583(SSID)ssj0000418753(PQKBManifestationID)11301283(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000418753(PQKBWorkID)10376929(PQKB)11656161(MiAaPQ)EBC557255(PPN)198463251(Au-PeEL)EBL557255(CaPaEBR)ebr10416504(CaONFJC)MIL278182(EXLCZ)99267000000004470320180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe globalization of motherhood deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care /edited by Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree MaherLondon :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (284 p.)Routledge research in comparative politicsDescription based upon print version of record.1-138-87428-0 0-415-77894-8 Includes bibliographical references (pages [232]-265) and index.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 motherhood6 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; IndexThe 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 markRoutledge research in comparative politics.MotherhoodCross-cultural studiesMotherhoodPolitical aspectsCross-cultural studiesGlobalizationCross-cultural studiesMothersSocial conditionsCross-cultural studiesElectronic books.MotherhoodMotherhoodPolitical aspectsGlobalizationMothersSocial conditions306.8743Chavkin Wendy858727Maher JaneMaree858728MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459212103321The globalization of motherhood1916815UNINA