Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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. The book has three sections that, from rich data, bring forth the voices and experiences of mothers and highlight the institutions and laws that marginalize them. Mothers in the first section face barriers such as institutional constraints that block them from needed resources and the ability to mother as they see fit. In the second section of the volume, chapter authors 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 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, readings demonstrate the mothers' striking resilience and resistance in challenging the ideologies and institutions that marginalize them.
Synopsis
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.