Acknowledgementsxi
Series Editors’ Prefacexiii
List of Contributorsxv
List of Tablesxix
Introduction: Bringing Marginalized Mothers to the Center
Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch
1
Part 1 Barriers that Marginalize Mothers
Pride and Hope, Shame and Blame: How Welfare Mothers in Higher Education Juggle Competing Identities
Sheila M. Katz
11
“Watching What I’m Doing, Watching How I’m doing It”: Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalized Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales
Dawn Mannay, Jordon Creaghan, Dunla Gallagher, Sherelle Mason, Melanie Morgan and Aimee Grant
25
Mothering, Identity Construction, and Visions of the Future Among Low-Income Adolescent Mothers from São Paulo, Brazil
Alanna E. F. Rudzik
41
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: SocioEconomic (IM)Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers of Children with Disabilities
Regina S. Baker and Linda M. Burton
57
The Parental Experience of Mothers with Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities: Qualitative Reflections On Marginalization and Resiliency
Kaitlin Stober and Alexis Franzese
73
Part 2 Borders that Marginalize Mothers
Chinese Maternity Tourists and Their “Anchor Babies”? Disdain and Racialized Conditional Acceptance of Non-Citizen Reproduction
Cassaundra Rodriguez
91
Negotiating Gender and Power: How Some Poor Mothers Employ Economic Survival Strategies After Welfare Reform
Sancha D. Medwinter and Linda M. Burton
107
“I’m Not a Good Mother Now, But I Will be in the Future:” Sub-Saharan African Transnational Mothers in a Transit Migrant Country
Cynthia Magallanes-Gonzalez
125
Between and Betwixt – Positioning Nannies as Mothers: Perspectives from Durban, South Africa
Boitumelo Seepamore
141
Disrupted Mothering: Narratives of Mothers in Prison
Kelly Lockwood
157
Part 3 Mothering as Resistance to Marginalization
“Parenting Like a White Person”: Race and Maternal Support among Marginalized Mothers
Cheryl Crane and Karen Christopher
177
Carework Strategies and Everyday Resistance among Mothers Who Have Timed-Out of Welfare
Jill Weigt
195
Exploring Black Women’s Homeschooling Experiences at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class
Taura Taylor
213
Breastmilk Sharing at the Intersections of Race and Risk
Kristin J. Wilson
229
“We Must Summon the Courage”: Black Activist Mothering Against Police Brutality
Anna Chatillon and Beth E. Schneider
245
Continuity and Change: Mothering in an era of post-liberalization
Nancy A. Naples
259
Index273

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