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1st Edition

Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction

Edited By Michelle Hughes Miller Copyright 2024
108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge

108 Pages
by Routledge
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In this book, motherhood and reproduction are identified as sites of legal, political, and ideological surveillance, regulation, and criminalization. Collectively, this rich and diverse edited volume builds on cross-disciplinary frameworks and an attention to differences among mothers to analyze multiple ways that mothers and pregnant women face culture, policy, or practices that may criminalize... Read more

Introduction to Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction
Michelle Hughes Miller

1. Intensive Parenting Ideologies and Risks for Recidivism among Justice-Involved Mothers
Elizabeth A. Adams

2. Managing Motherhood: How Incarcerated Mothers Negotiate Maternal Role-Identities with Their Children’s Caregivers
Ebonie Cunningham Stringer

3. Creating and Undoing Legacies of Resilience: Black Women as Martyrs in the Black Community Under Oppressive Social Control
Leah Iman Aniefuna, M. Amari Aniefuna, and Jason M. Williams

4. Discourses of Good Motherhood and the Policing of Young Parenthood
Amber-Lee Varadi, Rebecca Raby, and Christine Tardif-Williams

5. Criminalization of Women Accessing Abortion and Enforced Mobility within the European Union and the United Kingdom
Lula Mecinska, Carolyne James, and Kate Mukungu

Biography

Michelle Hughes Miller is Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, USA. As a feminist criminologist, she analyzes cultural and systemic responses to “bad” mothers and responses to violence against women. Along with multiple publications, she co-edited Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulations and Resistance (2017).

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