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Life's Work: Geographies of Social Reproduction

Katharyne Mitchell (Editor), Sallie A. Marston (Editor), Cindi Katz (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-1134-8
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244 pages
May 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Notes on Contributors.

Life's Work: An Introductionm Review and Critique. Katharyne Mitchell, Sallie A Marston and Cindi Katz.

Part I: Education and the Making of the Modern (Trans)national Subject.

1. Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks: John Morgan.

2. Indigenous Professionalization: Transnational Social Reproduction in the Andes. Nina Laurie, Robert Andolina and Sarah Radcliffe.

3. Producing the Future: Getting To Be British. Jean Lave.

Part II: Domesticity and Other Homely Spaces of Modernity.

1. Domesticating Birth in the Hospital: "Family-Centered" Birth and the Emergence of "Homelike" Birthing Rooms. Maria Fannin.

2. Adolescent Latina Bodyspaces: Making Homegirls, Homebodies and Homeplaces. Melissa Hyams.

3. Of Fictional Cities and "Diasporic" Aesthetics. Rosemary Marangoly George.

Part III: Modern Migrants/Flexible Citizens: Cultural Constructions of Belonging and Alienation.

1. Valuing Childcare: Troubles in Suburbia. Geraldine Pratt.

2. Toque una Ranchera, Por Favor. Altha J Cravey.

3. Human Smuggling, the Transnational Imaginary, and Everyday Geographies of the Nation-State. Alison Mountz.

Index.