Imprint: Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers
The authors in this volume explore how images of mothers have expanded beyond the good/bad dichotomy, simultaneously and sometimes paradoxically serving to reinforce, fracture, and/or transcend the ideology of good motherhood.
Edited by Anne Teresa Demo, Jennifer L. Borda, and Charlotte H. Kroløkke
Contributions by Jennifer L. Borda, Shira Chess, Anne Teresa Demo, Kara N. Dillard, K. Animashaun Ducre, Lisa A. Flores, Cynthia Gordon, Christine Harold, Sara E. Hayden, Charlotte H. Kroløkke, and Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen
Price:
CA$75.00
ISBN: 9780817318901
Pub Date: November 2015
Imprint: University of Alabama Press
The essays in The Motherhood Business examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace.
