Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines. Even so, no book has yet devoted a sustained look a
This work explores matrophobia – the fear not of one’s mother or of motherhood but of becoming one’s mother – in past and present white feminist analyses of motherhood and mot
"Sara Hayden and D. Lynn O'Brien Hallstein have done a superb job of drawing together a diverse set of essays that analyze the discursive and material constraints embodied in the concept of choice as