Foreword: Countervisions
Christa Craven

Acknowledgements

Introduction: An Alternative Mother-Centred Economic Paradigm
Melinda Vandenbeld Giles

Section I: Mothering and Neoliberal Labour

Flexible Labour and Care Work

1. Multiplying Mothers: Migration and the Work of Mothering in Canada and the Philippines
Catherine Bryan

2 Across the Great Divide: Balancing Paid Work and Child Care in Neoliberal Times in Two Policy Jurisdictions in the Ottawa Valley, Canada
Patrizia Albanese, Megan Butryn, Louisa Hawkins and Courtney Manion

3 Mothers, Doulas, Flexible Labour and Embodied Care in the United States
Angela Castañeda and Julie Searcy

The Entrepreneurial Mother

4 “Doing It All...and Making It Look Easy!”: Yummy Mummies, Mompreneurs and the North American Neoliberal Crises of the Home
Gillian Anderson and Joseph G. Moore

5 Eco-Diapers: The American Discourse of Sustainable Motherhood
Chikako Takeshita

6 Negotiating Identities: The Case of Mompreneurs in Trinidad and Tobago
Talia Esnard

Section II: Mothering and the Neoliberal State

Austerity and the Silencing of Mothers

7 Making Invisible: The Eradication of “Homeless Mothers” from Public Policy in Ontario, Canada
Melinda Vandenbeld Giles

8 Neoliberalism and the De-politicising of Motherhood: Reflections on the Australian Experience
Joanne Baker

9 Austerity and Gender Neutrality: The Excluding of Women and Mothers from Public Policy in the UK
Jane Chelliah

The Making of “Good” Neoliberal Mothering Subjects

10 Welfare Queens and Anchor Babies: A Comparative Study of Stigmatized Mothers in the United States
Katrina Bloch and Tiffany Taylor

11 “Educating” Mothers through Media: The Therapy Market in South Korea and the Making of “Deviant” Children
Jesook Song and Yoonhee Lee

12 “Education of Mothers” in Turkey: Discourses on Maternal Propriety and Neoliberal Body Politics on Motherhood
Sevi Bayraktar

13 Affective Labour and Neoliberal Fantasies: The Gendered and Moral Economy of School Choice in England
Andrew Wilkins

Section III: Neoliberalism and the Nuclear Family

14 Redefining Single Motherhood: The 1990s Child Support Discourse and the Dismantling of the U.S. Welfare State
Celia Winkler

15 “Who Is in Charge of the Family?”: Religious Mothering, Neoliberalism, and REAL Women of Canada
Vanessa Reimer

16 When Neoliberalism Intersects with Post-Second Wave Mothering: Reinforcing Neo-traditional American Family Configurations and Exacerbating the Post-Second Wave Crisis in Femininity
Lynn O’Brien Hallstein

17 Deserving Children and “Risky Mothers”: Situating Public Policy and Maternal/Child Welfare in the Canadian Context
Pat Breton

Section IV: Countering Neoliberalism Through Maternal Activism

18 Dancing without Drums: Using Maternalism as a Political Strategy to Critique Neoliberalism in Ibadan, Nigeria
Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin

19 Maternal Activism in the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal (ICJB), India
Reena Shadaan

20 It’s Not the Meek Who Inherit the Earth: Low-Income Mothers Organize for Economic Justice in Canada
Katheryne Schulz

Epilogue
Jesook Song

List of Contributors

Melinda Vandenbeld Giles is a mother, feminist activist, and PhD candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her research involves working with mothers who are living with their children in Ontario motel rooms.