Book chapter
Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa
Maternal Theory, p.761
Demeter Press, 2nd edition
07/01/2021
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1s2t0hn.52
Abstract
As scholars of reproductive justice, it feels impossible to write an essay about motherhood without examining our contemporary moment. We are one year into a global pandemic that has rocked the foundations of motherhood. People across class and colour have had to rearrange and reimagine their connections to productive and reproductive labour. The cruelty and devastation wrought by COVID-19 has proven deeply uneven. Frontline workers are disproportionately women, immigrants, low-income workers, and people of colour (Rho et al.). Catastrophic job losses have hit women hardest—particularly young women, Black women, Latinas, and women with disabilities (Ewing-Nelson). Mothers have been more
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century Iowa
- Creators
- LINA-MARIA MurilloNATALIE FIXMER-ORAIZ
- Contributors
- Andrea O’Reilly (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Maternal Theory, p.761
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- DOI
- 10.2307/j.ctv1s2t0hn.52
- Publisher
- Demeter Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- History; Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies; Communication Studies; University College Courses
- Record Identifier
- 9984270176702771
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