9 Motherhood as a Class Act: The Many Ways in Which “Intensive Mothering” Is Entangled with Social Class

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Contributors x
5. Social Reproduction and Feminist Political Economy 3
6. Feminist Political Economy in Canada and the Politics of Social Reproduction 11
7. Social Reproduction and Canadian Federalism 45
8. Whose Social Reproduction? Transnational Motherhood and Challenges to Feminist Political Economy 75
9. Bargaining for Collective Responsibility for Social Reproduction 93
10. Privatization: A Strategy for Eliminating Pay Equity in Health Care 117
11. Crisis Tendencies in Social Reproduction: The Case of Ontario’s Early Years Plan 145
12. The Neo-liberal State and Social Reproduction: Gender and Household Insecurity in the Late 1990s 173
13. Someone to Watch over You: Gender, Class, and Social Reproduction 215
14. Motherhood as a Class Act: The Many Ways in Which “Intensive Mothering” Is Entangled with Social Class 231
15. Friends, Neighbours, and Community: A Case Study of the Role of Informal Caregiving in Social Reproduction 263
16. Works Cited 293