Overview
Winner of the 2005 Society for Medical Anthropology's Best Current Edited Collection Award from the Council on Anthropology in Reproduction Consuming Motherhood addresses the provocative question of how motherhood and consumption-as ideologies and as patterns of social action-mutually shape and constitute each other in contemporary North American and European social life. Ideologically, motherhood and consumption are often constructed in opposition to each other, with motherhood standing in as a naturalized social relation that is thought to be uniquely free of the calculating instrumentality that dominates commercial relations. Yet, in social life, motherhood and consumption are inseparable. Whether shopping for children’s clothing or childbirth services, or making decisions about adopting children, becoming a mother (and maternal practice more generally) is deeply influenced by consumption. How can the relationship between motherhood and consumption be revealed, and critically analyzed? Consuming Motherhood brings together a group of sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars to address this question through carefully grounded ethnographic studies. This insightful book reveals how mothers negotiate the contradictory forces that position them as both immune from and the target of consumerist tendencies in contemporary global society.
Full Product Details
Author: Janelle S. Taylor ,
Linda Layne ,
Barbara Katz Rothman ,
Linda Layne
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780813534305
ISBN 10: 0813534305
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 06 August 2004
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption.... A well-integrated and surprisingly original volume."" ""Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption.... A well-integrated and surprisingly original volume.""
Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption.... A well-integrated and surprisingly original volume. Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption.... A well-integrated and surprisingly original volume.
Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption.... A well-integrated and surprisingly original volume.
