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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Rayna , 1 – 17 . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1991 . Haney Lynne . “ Motherhood as Punishment: The Case of Parenting in Prison .” Signs 39 , no. 1 ( 2013 ): 105 – 30 . Haney Lynne . Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 13–33.
Published: 01 September 2006
...Melanie Nicholson Duke University Press 2006 Without Their Children
Rethinking Motherhood a mong
Tr ansn ation al Migr ant...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 1–12.
Published: 01 September 2006
... it affects the lives of new immigrants in New York.
For Melanie Nicholson, for instance, motherhood is analyzed through
the benefits of transnational resources — income in the United States and
extended families offering child care...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (2 (99)): np.
Published: 01 June 2009
... is the Andrew J. Hilen Professor of American Litera-
ture and Culture and an affiliated faculty member in Women’s Studies
at the University of Washington, Seattle. She is the author of That Pale
Mother Rising: Sentimental Discourses and the Imitation of Motherhood in
Nineteenth-Century America...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): np.
Published: 01 September 2006
... and Margaret Gray 1
Without Their Children: Rethinking Motherhood among
Transnational Migrant Women Melanie Nicholson 13
“Los hombres no mandan aqu
Narrating Immigrant Genders and Sexualities
in New York Carlos Ulises Decena, Michele G. Shedlin,
and Angela Martínez 35
A la parada...
Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (2 (147)): 25–49.
Published: 01 June 2021
... was not feminine or delicate and in need of rescue. I was just another expendable Black woman out of place. 2 • • • Motherhood and female gendering/ungendering appear so intimately aligned that they seem to speak the same language. — Hortense Spillers, “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” Police terror...
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Journal Article
Social Text (2021) 39 (3 (148)): 79–101.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Mai'a , eds. Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines . Oakland, CA : PM Press , 2016 . Gurton-Wachter Lily . “ The Stranger Guest: The Literature of Pregnancy and New Motherhood .” Los Angeles Review of Books , July 27 , 2016 . lareviewofbooks.org/article/stranger-guest...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (3 (76)): 39–57.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of the horrors of unmarried motherhood
had become. Hewlett and West agreed that fatherlessness was a great
injury to children, contributing to problems as varied as youth violence,
substance abuse, lowered SAT scores, and child obesity, arguing...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
... as though there is no available historical reference. The criminalization of black motherhood has depended on the figure of the “welfare queen,” but for important reasons, there is no such counterpart for poor white mothers. African American studies scholar Wahneema Lubiano identified the “welfare queen...
Journal Article
Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 115–133.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of motherhood via an “ideol-
ogy of motherhood” that continues to construe childless women as either
selfish or pitiable and holds up the child as the ultimate desirable good.63
It is a story about the rootedness of kinship in psychic attachments and
needs that “lie too deep for tears,”64 as well as our...
Journal Article
Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 91–119.
Published: 01 December 2002
... into
his scientific principles.
These technologies have caused Americans and many other people to pon-
der anew concepts of fatherhood, motherhood and childhood. Is it accept-
able for a single woman, even a lesbian, to become pregnant with donor
semen in order that she will not have...
Journal Article
Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 81–102.
Published: 01 March 2006
... “untouchable,” tells me that
injections do not “suit” her or her children, but denies that they are inher-
ently harmful. She tells me that in this region, with its high rates of infant
mortality, grief is a central part of a woman’s life, a defining condition
of motherhood. She will grieve the loss...
Journal Article
Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2020
... professional lives. Child-rearing and motherhood alternatively become exploitative props for negligent institutions or become sites for creative forms of radical care. Through her ethnographic study of Argentinean women who are serving their sentences under a special house arrest program for pregnant women...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 111–127.
Published: 01 March 2003
... . A critique of the study of kinship . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Yngvesson, Barbara. 1997 . “Negotiating Motherhood: Identity and Difference in `Open'adoptions,” Law and Society Review 31.1 : 31 -80. Patterns of Shared Parenthood...
Journal Article
Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 37–55.
Published: 01 September 2007
..., and
the income they generate is indispensable for daily survival. Because of the
general conditions of poverty in the community, and because a woman’s
main function is supposed to center on motherhood, the transgression of
certain gender imperatives is tolerated if, for example, a woman finds her-
self...
Journal Article
Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 53–65.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and ethnic back-
NGOs to mediate grounds, to respect for one’s elders, to the protection one expects from one’s
superiors, to informal networks of mutual aid, to motherhood, to the cult of
between diverse saints, to witchcraft, to mediumship, to charismatic gifts...
Journal Article
Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 29–55.
Published: 01 March 2003
... Unconventional
parents easily forged connections out of networks in which they already
participated, such as support groups for single women contemplating
motherhood. Such parents are often conscious of their delicate and diffi-
cult roles. A mother in a discussion group mused, somewhat anxiously:
“We...
Journal Article
Social Text (2015) 33 (3 (124)): 75–113.
Published: 01 September 2015
... Jessica Benjamin, “The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study
of Fantasy and Reality,” in Representations of Motherhood, ed. Donna Bassin, Mar-
garet Honey, and Meryle Mahrer Kaplan (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1994), esp. 130...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 123–127.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-Victorian and
pro-family feminism, bent on shielding women from aggressive male
sexuality and confirming motherhood as woman’s essential role. Drawing
on the revelations of women’s consciousness-raising groups, she finds not
only that sexual double standards still oppress women (despite...
Journal Article
Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 129–133.
Published: 01 September 2009
...-Victorian and
pro-family feminism, bent on shielding women from aggressive male
sexuality and confirming motherhood as woman’s essential role. Drawing
on the revelations of women’s consciousness-raising groups, she finds not
only that sexual double standards still oppress women (despite...
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