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Title:

Consuming motherhood / edited by Janelle S. Taylor, Linda L. Layne, and Danielle F. Wozniak.

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

ix, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Motherhood.
Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects.
Women consumers.

Other Authors:

Taylor, Janelle S., 1965-
Layne, Linda L.
Wozniak, Danielle F.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-309) and index.

Contents:

Caught in the current / Barbara Katz Rothman. How infants grow mothers in north London / Daniel Miller -- Maternity and materiality: becoming a mother in consumer culture / Alison J. Clarke -- 'What will I do with all the toys now?': consumption and the signification of kinship in U.S. fostering relationships / Danielle F. Wozniak -- 'Too bad you got a lemon': Peter Singer, mothers of children with disabilities, and the critique of consumer culture / Gail Landsman -- Making memories: trauma, choice, and consumer culture in the case of pregnancy loss / Linda L. Layne -- Maternal labor in a transnational circuit / Ann Anagnost -- Going 'home': adoption, exclusive belongings, and the mythology of roots / Barbara Yngvesson -- A fetish is born: sonographers and the making of the public fetus / Janelle S. Taylor -- Consuming childbirth: the qualified commodification of midwifery care / Robbie E. Davis-Floyd -- Mothers between God and Mammon: feminist interpretations of childbirth / Pamela E. Klassen -- Commoditizing kinship in America / Igor Kopytoff -- Caught in the current / Barbara Katz Rothman.

ISBN:

9780813534305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813534305 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813534299 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813534291 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)53186566

LCCN:

2003022260

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)