This volume focuses on the ways in which mothers are marginalized based on intersecting identities, such as immigration status, race, class, disability, sexuality, and how these women mother from the margins. Divided into three sections, this collection brings forth the voices and experiences of mothers and highlights the institutions and laws that marginalize them. In the first section, mothers face barriers such as institutional constraints that block them from needed resources and the ability to mother as they see fit. In section two, contributors examine the borders of marginalized mothering - boundaries reflected through citizenship, walls, geography, dealings with intimate partners and welfare offices, or prison bars. Readings in this section highlight mothers' efforts to transcend, resist, or even just survive experiences with borders. The final section centers on mothers that explicitly adopt mothering strategies of resistance or explicitly use their status as mothers in their activism. Topics range from mothers who engage in milk sharing to mothers of color whom organize against police brutality. Throughout the volume, contributors demonstrate the striking resilience of these mothers, and their resistance in challenging the ideologies and institutions that marginalize them.

About the Author
Tiffany Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University at Kent, USA. In her research, she examines a number of topics related to inequality and work, including policy implementation of programs for impoverished mothers in North Carolina and Ohio. Katrina Bloch is Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University at Stark, USA. She is an inequality scholar and co-editor (with Carissa Froyum and Tiffany Taylor) of Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities.

Reviews
This volume brings together 16 essays by sociology and other scholars from the US, the UK, and South Africa, who discuss the barriers, struggles, resilience, and resistance of mothers marginalized for various reasons, from incarceration to immigration, and how their identities, such as immigration status, race, class, disability, sexuality, and age, impact expectations, treatment, and choices. They address the barriers that these mothers face, including with welfare, surveillance and policing, and in achieving their aspirations, as well as by mothers of children with disabilities; the borders of marginalized mothering, with discussion of Chinese mothers who give birth in the US, Mexican-immigrant mothers in the US, migrant mothers, incarcerated mothers, and migrant nannies; and mothering as resistance, in terms of maternal support, care work strategies used when they have met their lifetime limits on welfare, black women's home schooling experiences, breast milk sharing, and black activist mothering against police brutality. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787564008
Author Tiffany Taylor
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 541g