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An Anthropology of Mothering

Author : Naomi M. McPherson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780986667183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Mothering written by Naomi M. McPherson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In anthropology, cross-cultural research is fundamental. In relation to "mothering," cross-cultural research becomes enlightening, not only to understand the practices of so-called Others, but also to understanding ourselves. The Anthropology of Mothering has developed fairly unnoticed until the last couple of years, when an increase of research, attention, and respect has suddenly appeared. Geographically, this anthology focuses on places and populations from Canada, the United States, Central and South America, the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. The experiences and ideas represented within this volume are much more than geographically diverse, as Indigenous and immigrant, rural and urban, religious and secular populations are represented, as well as one chapter focused on primate and hominid mothering. Through the consideration of the experiences of grandmothers, au pairs, biological and adoptive mothers, mothers of soldiers, mothers of children with autism, mothers in the corrections system, among others, it becomes clear that human mothering is neither practiced nor experienced the same the world over - indeed, even a single definition of what "mothering" is cannot be formed by the contribu- tors of this anthology. Instead, while ideas of 'good' mothering exist in every culture, the effects of colonialism and migration, as well as different understandings of and relationships to food, religion, and government play prominent among many other factors, includ- ing age, relationship status, and sexuality of mothers themselves, to affect what is understood as 'good' versus 'bad' mothering

Good Enough Mothers

Author : JM López
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800732538
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough Mothers written by JM López and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional life course framework, it demonstrates how the transition to motherhood is never complete. Once a good mother is defined, she becomes undefined, the goal posts moved, and the rules confronted.

The Mothers

Author : Robert Briffault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mothers written by Robert Briffault and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Archaeology of Mothering

Author : Laurie A. Wilkie
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415945707
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book The Archaeology of Mothering written by Laurie A. Wilkie and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology

Author : Rebecca Gowland
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030273938
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Mother-Infant Nexus in Anthropology written by Rebecca Gowland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 20 years there has been increased research traction in the anthropology of childhood. However, infancy, the pregnant body and motherhood continue to be marginalised. This book will focus on the mother-infant relationship and the variable constructions of this dyad across cultures, including conceptualisations of the pregnant body, the beginnings of life, and implications for health. This is particularly topical because there is a burgeoning awareness within anthropology regarding the centrality of mother-infant interactions for understanding the evolution of our species, infant and maternal health and care strategies, epigenetic change, and biological and social development. This book will bring together cultural and biological anthropologists and archaeologists to examine the infant-maternal interface in past societies. It will showcase innovative theoretical and methodological approaches towards understanding societal constructions of foetal, infant and maternal bodies. It will emphasise their interconnectivity and will explore the broader significance of the mother/infant nexus for overall population well-being.

Mothers and Others

Author : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674659953
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Mothers and Others written by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mothers and Others finds the key in the primatologically unique length of human childhood. Renowned anthropologist Sarah Hrdy argues that if human babies were to survive in a world of scarce resources, they would need to be cared for, not only by their mothers but also by siblings, aunts, fathers, friends—and, with any luck, grandmothers. Out of this complicated and contingent form of childrearing, Hrdy argues, came the human capacity for understanding others. In essence, mothers and others teach us who will care, and who will not.

Mothering from the Field

Author : Bahiyyah M. Muhammad
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978800584
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)

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Download or read book Mothering from the Field written by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heated national conversation about gender equality and women in the workforce is something that women in academia have been concerned with and writing about for at least a decade. Overall, the conversation has focused on identifying how women in general and mothers in particular fair in the academy as a whole, as well as offering tips on how to maximize success. Aside from a long-standing field-specific debate in anthropology, rare are the volumes focusing on the particulars of motherhood’s impacts on how scientific research is conducted, particularly when it comes to field research. Mothering from the Field offers both a mosaic of perspectives from current women scientists’ experiences of conducting field research across a variety of sub-disciplines while raising children, and an analytical framework to understand how we can redefine methodological and theoretical contributions based on mothers’ experiences in order not just to promote healthier, more inclusive, nurturing, and supportive environments in physical, life, and social sciences, but also to revolutionize how we conceptualize research.

Motherhood across Borders

Author : Gabrielle Oliveira
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479897728
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Motherhood across Borders written by Gabrielle Oliveira and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Inaugural Outstanding Ethnography Book Award, given by the Ethnography in Education Research Forum The stories of Mexican migrant women who parent from afar, and how their transnational families stay together While we have an incredible amount of statistical information about immigrants coming in and out of the United States, we know very little about how migrant families stay together and raise their children. Beyond the numbers, what are the everyday experiences of families with members on both sides of the border? Focusing on Mexican women who migrate to New York City and leave children behind, Motherhood across Borders examines parenting from afar, as well as the ways in which separated siblings cope with different experiences across borders. Drawing on more than three years of ethnographic research, Gabrielle Oliveira offers a unique focus on the many consequences of maternal migration. Oliveira illuminates the life trajectories of separated siblings, including their divergent educational paths, and the everyday struggles that undocumented mothers go through in order to figure out how to be a good parent to all of their children, no matter where they live. Despite these efforts, the book uncovers the far-reaching effects of maternal migration that influences both the children who accompany their mothers to New York City, and those who remain in Mexico. With more mothers migrating without their children in search of jobs, opportunities, and the hope of creating a better life for their families, Motherhood across Borders is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, and anyone with an interest in the current dynamics of U.S immigration.

Making Modern Mothers

Author : Heather Paxson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520937130
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (371 download)

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Download or read book Making Modern Mothers written by Heather Paxson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching analysis of conflicting assumptions about what it takes to be a good mother and a good woman in modern Greece, where assertions of cultural tradition unfold against a backdrop of European Union integration, economic struggle, and national demographic anxiety over a falling birth rate.

Tired of Weeping

Author : Jonina Einarsdottir
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299201333
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Tired of Weeping written by Jonina Einarsdottir and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2005-01-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 1993 to 1998 among the matrilineal Papel, who reside in the Biombo region, this work includes theoretical discussion of reproductive practices, conceptions of children, childcare customs, interpretations of diseases and death, and infanticide. Einarsdóttir also brings compelling narratives of life experiences and reflections of Papel women.

Maternal Geographies

Author : Jennufer L. Johnson
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772582387
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Maternal Geographies written by Jennufer L. Johnson and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection broaches the intersections of critical motherhood studies and feminist geography. Contributors demonstrate that an important dimension of the social construction of motherhood is how mothering happens in space and place, leading to the articulation of diverse maternal geographies. Through 16 concise chapters divided into three thematic sections, the contributors provide an account of motherhood and mothering as spatial practices that are embedded in relations of power across time and place. While some contributors explore how dominant discourses of motherhood seek to keep mothers in their place, others take up the notion of maternal geographies as productive in their own right and follow their subjects as they create a new sense of place. Collectively, the authors demonstrate that mothers are produced and regulated as subjects in relation to space and place, and also that practices of mothering produce spatial relationships.

The Reproduction of Mothering

Author : Nancy Chodorow
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520221559
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Reproduction of Mothering written by Nancy Chodorow and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-11-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text had a major impact on both feminists and psychoanalysts when it was first published, and it continues to shape the thinking of analysts and feminists today.

Encyclopedia of Motherhood

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412968461
Total Pages : 1521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Motherhood written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 1521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a distinct and established field of scholarly inquiry. A cursory review of motherhood research reveals that hundreds of scholarly articles have been published on almost every motherhood theme imaginable. The Encyclopedia of Motherhood is a collection of approximately 700 articles in a three-volume, A-to-Z set exploring major topics related to motherhood, from geographical, historical and cultural entries to anthropological and psychological contributions. In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The Encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource designed to provide an understanding of the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, and is written by academics and institutional experts in the social and behavioural sciences.

From Motherhood to Mothering

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484130
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book From Motherhood to Mothering written by Andrea O'Reilly and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since the publication of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born, the topic of motherhood has emerged as a central issue in feminist scholarship. Arguably still the best feminist book on mothering and motherhood, Of Woman Born is not only a wide-ranging, far-reaching meditation on the meaning and experience of motherhood that draws from the disciplines of anthropology, feminist theory, psychology, and literature, but it also narrates Rich's personal reflections on her experiences of mothering. Andrea O'Reilly gathers feminist scholars from diverse disciplines such as literature, women's studies, law, sociology, anthropology, creative writing, and critical theory and examines how Of Woman Born has informed and influenced the way feminist scholarship "thinks and talks" about motherhood. The contributors explore the many ways in which Rich provides the analytical tools to study and report upon the meaning and experience of motherhood.

Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies

Author : Gail Landsman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135963789
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Motherhood and Disability in the Age of Perfect Babies written by Gail Landsman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining mothers of newly diagnosed disabled children within the context of new reproductive technologies and the discourse of choice, this book uses anthropology and disability studies to revise the concept of "normal" and to establish a social environment in which the expression of full lives will prevail.

The Mothers

Author : Robert Briffault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 841 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Mothers written by Robert Briffault and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Militant Lactivism?

Author : Charlotte Faircloth
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457594
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Militant Lactivism? written by Charlotte Faircloth and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following networks of mothers in London and Paris, the author profiles the narratives of women who breastfeed their children to full term, typically a period of several years, as part of an 'attachment parenting' philosophy. These mothers talk about their decision to continue breastfeeding as 'the natural thing to do': 'evolutionarily appropriate', 'scientifically best' and 'what feels right in their hearts'. Through a theoretical focus on knowledge claims and accountability, the author frames these accounts within a wider context of 'intensive parenting', arguing that parenting practices – infant feeding in particular – have become a highly moralized affair for mothers, practices which they feel are a critical aspect of their 'identity work'. The book investigates why, how and with what implications some of these mothers describe themselves as 'militant lactivists' and reflects on wider parenting culture in the UK and France. Discussing gender, feminism and activism, this study contributes to kinship and family studies by exploring how relatedness is enacted in conjunction to constructions of the self.