Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization is an anthology that cogently and powerfully examines the diverse and complex experiences of motherhood and mothering from
a broad interdisciplinary perspective. The lucid analysis of how globalization influences the lives of mothers, especially in regard to cultural, political, historical, social, and economic factors, provides a compelling examination of the myriad of relationships between mothering and globalization. The collection also surveys multiple approaches to mothers, mothering, and globalization and contributes to a nascent dialogue through its interrogation of the impact of globalization on mothers and mothering practices through the lenses of feminist ideologies; literary criticism; and cultural, social, and economic analyses.
LAILA MALIK is a desisporic settler and writer living in Adobigok, traditional land of Indigenous communities that include the Anishinaabe, Seneca, Mohawk Haudenosaunee, and Wendat. Her work has been widely published in literary magazines and journals, including Contemporary Verse 2, Canthius, The New Quarterly, Ricepaper, Qwerty, Room, Sukoon, The Bangalore Review, and Archetype. Malik's essays have been longlisted for four different creative nonfiction contests and she was a fellow at the Banff Centre for Creative Arts in 2021. Her debut collection archipelago was included in CBC’s Spring 2023 Poetry Collections to Watch For.
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Introduction Formulating Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization
Dorsi?a Smith Silva, Laila Malik, and Abigail L. Palko
I. MOTHERING, GLOBALIZATION, AND IDENTITY
Chapter One
Mothering from Afar:
Cinema and the Ambivalence of Transnational Motherhood
Dwayne Avery
Chapter Two
Madre/Moneda:
The Moral Value of Motherwork in Immigrant Nanny Personal Narratives
Elizabeth Cummins Mun?oz
Chapter Three
Of Bodies, Borders, and European Belonging: Trial of a Child Denied and the
Sterilization of Roma Mothers in the Czech Republic
Roxana Cazan
Chapter Four
Transnational Mothering Online: Community Blogs by Diasporic Indian Mothers
Sucharita Sarkar
Chapter Five
The Doing of Mothering from the Margins
Gavaza Maluleke
Chapter Six
?Tigerish Mom? in the Dragon?s Den: A Journey of Negotiating Culture and Finding
One?s Voice
Aimee Tiu Wu
Chapter Seven
Relying on Mothers: Motherwork and Maternal Thinking in Development
Empowerment Discourse
Michelle Hughes Miller
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INTERLUDE
Chapter Eight
At Sea
Jessica Adams
II. MOTHERING, GLOBALIZATION, AND NATION
Chapter Nine
Abortion Politics in Edna O?Brien?s Down by the River
Abigail L. Palko
Chapter Ten
Mothering (in) Which Nation? Migration, Citizenship, and Motherhood of Filipino
Immigrant Women Raising Japanese-Filipino Children
Jocelyn O. Celero
Chapter Eleven
A Motherhood Manifesto: Ivy Queen?s Vendetta
Catherine Marsh Kennerley
Chapter Twelve
Mothering Beyond National Borders: Trajectories of Zimbabwean Migrant Women in
South Africa
Kezia Batisai
Chapter Thirteen
Positive Engagements with Globalization: Lessons from Maternal Activists in
Transnational Women?s Groups during the Liberian Civil War
Crystal M. Whetstone
Chapter Fourteen
Transnational Mothering and Trauma in Edwidge Danticat?s Breath, Eyes, Memory
Dorsi?a Smith Silva
About the Contributors