Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

Tiffany Taylor is Associate Professor of Sociology at KentState University at Kent, USA. In her research, she examines a number of topicsrelated to inequality and work, including policy implementation of programs forimpoverished mothers in North Carolina and Ohio. Katrina Blochis Associate Professor of Sociology at Kent State University at Stark, USA. Sheis an inequality scholar and co-editor (with Carissa Froyum and Tiffany Taylor)of Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities.

This volume brings together 16 essays by sociology and other scholars from the US, the UK, and South Africa, who discuss the barriers, struggles, resilience, and resistance of mothers marginalized for various reasons, from incarceration to immigration, and how their identities, such as immigration status, race, class, disability, sexuality, and age, impact expectations, treatment, and choices. They address the barriers that these mothers face, including with welfare, surveillance and policing, and in achieving their aspirations, as well as by mothers of children with disabilities; the borders of marginalized mothering, with discussion of Chinese mothers who give birth in the US, Mexican-immigrant mothers in the US, migrant mothers, incarcerated mothers, and migrant nannies; and mothering as resistance, in terms of maternal support, care work strategies used when they have met their lifetime limits on welfare, black women's home schooling experiences, breast milk sharing, and black activist mothering against police brutality.

• IntroductionBringing Marginalized Mothers to the Center; Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch Part 1: Barriers that Marginalize Mothers 1.Pride and Hope, Shame and Blame: How Welfare Mothers in Higher Education Juggle Competing Identities; Sheila M. Katz 2.Watching What I'm Doing, Watching How I'm doing It': Exploring the Everyday Experiences of Surveillance and Silenced Voices Among Marginalised Mothers in Welsh Low-Income Locales; Dawn Mannay, Jordon Creaghan, Dunla Gallagher, Sherelle Mason, Melanie Morgan, and Aimee Grant 3.Mothering, Identity Construction and Visions of the Future Among Low-Income Adolescent Mothers from São Paulo, Brazil; Alanna E.F. Rudzik 4.Socio-Economic (Im) Mobility Among Low-Income Mothers of Children with Disabilities; Regina S. Baker and Linda Burton 5.The Parental Experience of Mothers with Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities: Qualitative Reflections On Marginalization and Resiliency; Kaitlin Stober and Alexis Franzese Part 2: Borders that Marginalize Mothers 6.Chinese Maternity Tourists and Their "Anchor Babies"? Online Commenters' Disdain and Racialized Conditional Acceptance of Non-Citizen Reproduction; Cassaundra Rodriguez 7."Doing" and "Undoing" Gender to Make Ends Meet: Understanding the Agency of Poor Minority Mothers who Negotiate Gender and Survival at the Intersection of Migration, Intimate Unions and the Welfare Office; Sancha Medwinter and Linda M. Burton 8. "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 9.Mothering from a Distance -- The Experience of Domestic Workers in Durban, South Africa; Boitumelo Seepamore 10.Disrupted Identities: Narratives of Mothers in Prison; Kelly Lockwood Part 3: Mothering as Resistance to Marginalization  11."Parenting Like a White Person": Race and Material Support among Marginalized Mothers; Cheryl Crane and Karen Christopher 12.Carework Strategies and Everyday Resistance among Mothers who are Timed-Out of Welfare; Jill Weigt 13.Exploring Black Women’s Homeschooling Experiences at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class; Taura Taylor 14.Breast Milk Sharing at the Intersections of Race and Risk; Kristin J Wilson 15. "We Must Summon the Courage": Black Motherhood as Motivation to Resist Police Brutality; Anna Chatillon and Beth E. Schneider Afterword:Nancy Naples