{"id":3216,"date":"2011-12-01T23:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T04:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2011-12-01T23:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T04:50:46","slug":"global-mama-on-my-bookshelf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/12\/01\/global-mama-on-my-bookshelf\/","title":{"rendered":"GLOBAL MAMA: On My Bookshelf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSEzD9CQeKs_nL92pPZL9bRXdCcb8Qw3ng0OesxWygI4eY_ynECA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/t2.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRSEzD9CQeKs_nL92pPZL9bRXdCcb8Qw3ng0OesxWygI4eY_ynECA\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been meaning to write about some of the books on my bookshelf for quite a while. \u00a0(As in, all semester!)\u00a0 So here\u2019s a quick roundup of a handful of 2011 titles relevant to motherhood globally:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh<\/em><\/strong>, by Lamia Karim (University of Minnesota Press).\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been following microfinance, often touted as a cure-all for global poverty, anthropologist Karim offers a more sobering look.\u00a0 You can read the great review in the current issue of the <em>Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/em> (<em>WRB<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcwonline.org\/WRB-Nov-Dec-2011\/the-economy-of-shame\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men<\/em><\/strong>, by Mara Hvistendahl (PublicAffairs). \u00a0Hvistendahl is a correspondent for <em>Science<\/em> magazine, and her thoroughly researched (and deeply disturbing) book examines the gender imbalance globally. Amy Agigian does a fabulous job reviewing it in the same issue of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcwonline.org\/womensreview\">WRB<\/a><\/em>, although her essay (alas) isn\u2019t available online.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How To Do It<\/em><\/strong>, edited by Andrea O\u2019Reilly (Demeter Press).\u00a0 If you need to feel uplifted about all the social change brought about by mothers, look no further.\u00a0 This comprehensive anthology includes articles about maternal activism from all parts of the world, including Australia, Ireland, Germany, Argentina, Iran, Russia, Canada, and the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shattered: Modern Motherhood and the Illusion of Equality<\/em><\/strong>, by Rebecca Asher (Harvill Secker).\u00a0 Journalist Asher examines the current state of motherhood in the U.K. and discovers that women are still left cooking the bacon and, um, pushing the pram.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering<\/em><\/strong>, by Cameron Lynn Macdonald (University of California Press). \u00a0Macdonald, a sociologist, provides a fascinating look at the relationships of professional women with their nannies\/au pairs. \u00a0Rosanna Hertz reviews both this book and <strong><em>Raising Brooklyn: Nannies, Childcare, and Caribbeans Creating<\/em> <em>Communities<\/em><\/strong><em>, <\/em>by Tamara Mose Brown (NYU Press) in that same issue of <em>WRB<\/em> (enough already, I know. \u00a0But have you subscribed yet?). \u00a0Brown has also reflected on her own experiences as a mother studying nannies, which I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1866\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been meaning to write about some of the books on my bookshelf for quite a while. \u00a0(As in, all semester!)\u00a0 So here\u2019s a quick roundup of a handful of 2011 titles relevant to motherhood globally: Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh, by Lamia Karim (University of Minnesota Press).\u00a0 If you\u2019ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1916,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21105],"tags":[400,21386,1399,21599,21622,21633],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-mama","tag-book-reviews","tag-gender-imbalance","tag-global","tag-microfinance","tag-mothers-movement","tag-nannies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}