Marginalized mothers, mothering from the margins /edited by Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch.
- First edition.
- Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing Limited, (c)2018.
- 1 online resource (xix, 281 pages)
- Advances in gender research ; volume 25 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Series Editors' Preface; List of Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction: Bringing Marginalized Mothers to the Center; The Beginning; The Marginalization of Mothers and Intersectionality; This Volume; References; Part 1: Barriers That Marginalize Mothers; Chapter 1: Pride and Hope, Shame And Blame: How Welfare Mothers in Higher Education Juggle Competing Identities; Welfare Reform and Assumptions About Mothering; Marginalized Mothering While in College; Methods; Negotiating Identities; Mothering While Studying; Reliance Necessitates Compliance Discussion: Capitalizing their CapitalConclusion and Implications; References; Chapter 2: "Watching What I'm Doing, Watching How I'm Doing It": Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalized Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales; Introduction; The Studies; Findings; Policing from Professionals; Policing from Publics; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3: Mothering, Identity Construction, and Visions of the Future Among Low-Income Adolescent Mothers from São Paulo, Brazil; Introduction; Methods; Maternal Identity Aspirations and Expectations for the FutureConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Socioeconomic (Im)Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers of Children with Disabilities; Background; Socioeconomic Mobility Aspirations of Low-Income Mothers; Employment and Education of Parents and Child Disability; Mother's Health and Comorbidity; Methods; Data Analysis; Results; Barriers to Mobility; Maternal Health, Family Comorbidity, and Cumulative Disadvantage; Conclusion; References Chapter 5: The Parental Experience of Mothers with Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities: Qualitative Reflections on Marginalization and ResilienceyIntroduction; Review of the Literature; Methods and Sampling Strategy; Results; Family Impact: Challenges and Rewards; Experiences of Marginalization; Intersections of Marginalization; Discussion; References; Part 2: Borders That Marginalize Mothers; Chapter 6: Chinese Maternity Tourists and their "Anchor Babies"? Disdain and Racialized Conditional Acceptance of Non-Citizen Reproduction; Introduction The Era of Exclusion (And Classed Inclusion)The Digital Birth of "Anchor Babies"; Methodology; Findings; Expanding Exclusion Through Inclusion: Children Constructed as Legal Loopholes and "Anchor Babies"; Relational Sympathies; Racialized Anxieties or Racialized Conditional Acceptance? Yellow Peril and the Model Minority; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Negotiating Gender and Power: How Some Poor Mothers Employ Economic Survival Strategies After Welfare Reform; Background; Women, Men, and the United States-Mexico Immigration and Welfare Systems; Methods; Ethnographic Methodology
This volume examines the barriers and borders that marginalize mothers and their efforts to be good mothers and how they mother as a form of resistance to these barriers and borders.