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Mothers, Mothering, and Globalization is an anthology that cogently and powerfully examines the diverse and complex experiences of motherhood and mothering from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. The lucid analysis of how globalization influences the lives of mothers, especially in regard to cultural, political, historical, social, and economic factors, provides a compelling examination of the myriad of relationships between mothering and globalization. The collection also surveys multiple approaches to mothers, mothering, and globalization and contributes to a nascent dialogue through its interrogation of the impact of globalization on mothers and mothering practices through the lenses of feminist ideologies; literary criticism; and cultural, social, and economic analyses.

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?Here is a book that insists on taking a topic that has been exhaustively explored?globalization?but provides a new lens with which to study it, mothering and motherhood. In this fine collection, the editors and contributors beautifully outline globalization's impact on women who identify as mothers, providing interdisciplinary approaches to rethink motherhood and maternal roles on a global scale.? ?CRISTINA HERRERA, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies, California State University, Fresno ?This collection brings to light the impact of globalizing employment pat- terns, migration and precarious living as well as the rapidly shifting social context in which norms and values around mothering are forged. Through these stories we hear the voices of mothers as they navigate complex motherhood roles that often demand absence from children or forms of resistance to social norms and cultural expectations. We hear in the voices of women in this book that mothering is complicated work and challenges emerge from many dimensions?social, economic, political and geographic. The stories bring to life both the necessity and the processes for difficult choices from within an often economically and culturally limited array of options.? ?JILL ALLISON, Global Health Coordinator, Memorial University of Newfoundland, author of Motherhood and Infertility in Ireland: Understanding the Presence of Absence

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Dorsía Smith Silva is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. She is the co-editor of the Caribbean without Borders: Caribbean Literature, Language and Culture (2008), Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Literature and Culture (2010), and Feminist and Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Mothering (2013), and editor of Latina/Chicana Mothering (2011). She is the co-editor of Mothers and Daughters (2017) and Travellin' Mama (2017). Laila Malik is a Toronto-based writer, editor, researcher and mother of two. She produces publications for the Association for Women's Rights in Development. Abigail L. Palko is the Director of the Maxine Platzer Lynn Women's Center at the University of Virginia. Her book, Imagining Motherhood in Contemporary Irish and Caribbean Literature, is available from Palgrave Macmillan. She is the co-editor of Cultural Representations of Breastfeeding (2017).

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