This volume focuses on the ways in which mothers are
marginalized based on intersecting identities, such as immigration status,
race, class, disability, sexuality, and how these women mother from the margins.
Divided into three sections, this collection brings forth the voices and
experiences of mothers and highlights the institutions and laws that
marginalize them. In the first section, mothers
face barriers such as institutional constraints that block them from needed
resources and the ability to mother as they see fit. In section two, contributors examine the
borders of marginalized mothering - boundaries reflected through citizenship,
walls, geography, dealings with intimate partners and welfare offices, or prison
bars. Readings in this section highlight mothers' efforts to transcend, resist,
or even just survive experiences with borders.
The final section centers on mothers that explicitly adopt mothering
strategies of resistance or explicitly use their status as mothers in their
activism. Topics range from mothers who engage in milk sharing to mothers of
color whom organize against police brutality.
Throughout the volume, contributors demonstrate the striking resilience
of these mothers, and their resistance in challenging the ideologies and
institutions that marginalize them.