Twenty-first Century Motherhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

Andrea O'Reilly explores motherhood's current representation and practice, considering developments that were unimaginable decades ago: the internet, interracial surrogacy, raising transchildren, male mothering, intensive mothering, queer parenting, the applications of new biotechnologies, and mothering in the post-9/11 era. Her work pulls together a range of disciplines and themes in motherhood studies. She confronts the effects of globalization, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, politicians as mo...