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This volume explores the intersections of welfare, gender and mothering work in the context this political reality. It explores austerity and the policies of neoliberal governments that work to deprive some mothers of their welfare. This volume also explores how motherhood is socially constructed in various social locations and places around the world. Last, it examines different ways of thinking about mothering and what changes to laws and policies are required to assist all who are mothering and provide better support to their families.

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Mothering and Welfare is a terrific collection of papers that offer smart critical analyses of the challenges and survival strategies of mothers who are marginalized by poverty, disability, incarceration and the pervasive effects of neoliberal capitalism. -Professor Bonnie J. Fox Department of Sociology University of Toronto This vivid exploration of the complexities of mothering and welfare in times of austerity not only details the deprivation and control involved, but also depicts resistance, agency and seized opportunities. Diversity, in its country studies, voices and methods, offers a fuller, more vibrant, picture of mothering, one that serves to re-cast motherhood, mothering, and the forms and places of motherwork. -Alexandra Dobrowolsky, Professor, Political Science Saint Mary's University Mothering and Welfare: Depriving, Surviving, Thriving is a very timely collection which focusses on the complexities of motherhood and motherwork in a time of precarity, austerity, and Trumpian divisiveness [you could use madness as well]. The strength of this collection is that while it highlights the struggles mothers face, it also highlights the resourcefulness and resilience of social reproductive labourers and points to ways in which all forms of motherwork can be supported and valued. ? Jacquetta Newman, Ph.d., Professor of Political Science at King's University College at Western University. -Jacquetta Newman, Ph.D. Dept. of Political Science King's University College, Western University

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Karine Levasseur is Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, and a stepmother. Her research interests include state-civil society relations, accountability and governance. She is author of In the Name of Charity: Institutional support and resistance for redefining the meaning of charity in Canada, which won the J.E. Hodgetts Award for best article (English) published in Canadian Public Administration in 2012. Stephanie Paterson is a professor of political science at Concordia University. She specializes in feminist and critical policy studies. Her work centres on the effects produced when states take up and deploy feminist knowledge and expertise, and includes substantive expertise in feminist governance, gender mainstreaming, and the politics of reproduction. Lorna A. Turnbull is an activist mother of three, and a professor and former Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba. Her research is focused on the work of care, its importance to carers and those who depend on the care, and how legal frameworks support or fail these important relationships through the lens of Canada's constitutional guarantees and international obligations. She is the author of Double Jeopardy: Motherwork and the Law (2001).

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