The globalization of motherhood : deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care / edited by Wendy Chavkin and JaneMaree Maher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I. Introduction -- 1. The globalization of motherhood / Wendy Chavkin -- 2. Motherhood: reproduction and care / Janemaree Maher -- PART II. Cross national care labour -- 3. Mothers on the move: Children's education and transnational mobility in global-city Singapore / Shirlena Huang -- 4. Stratified workers/stratified mothers: Migration policies and citizenship among Ecuadorian immigrant women / Gioconda Herrera -- PART III. Transnational adoption -- 5. Intercountry adoption as globalized motherhood / Peter Selman -- 6. Transnational adoption and the transnationalization of motherhood: rethinking abandonment, adoption and return / Barbara Yngvesson -- PART IV. Art Across borders -- 7. Motherhood jeopardized: reproductive technologies in Indian communities / Shamita Das Dasgupta -- 8. Divided mothers: changing global inequalities of ǹature' and ǹurture' / Margaret Jolly -- 9. Àssisted' motherhood in global Dubai: reproductive tourists and their helpers / Marcia C. Inhorn -- PART V. Conclusion -- 10. Rights as recourse: globalized motherhood and human rights / Reilly Anne Willis -- 11. Epilogue: mothering forward? / Janemaree Maher.