Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Good Enough Mothers : : Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico / / JM López.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: López, JM,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives ; 49
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Part I CONTEXTS --; Chapter 1 LA ORILLA: COLETAS AND COLONIALITY --; Part II CHILDBEARING POLITICS --; Chapter 2 BETY AND ROSA --; Chapter 3 BRIDGING THE GAP: BARRIO MIDWIVES --; Chapter 4 CRIS, SOFI AND ESME: THE BIRTH CENTRE --; Part III NURTURE WORK --; Chapter 5 LUPITA AND CARLITA --; Chapter 6 SARA, BANIA AND LILA: GOOD ENOUGH MOTHERS --; CONCLUSION: TRANSLATING A LOCAL-GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH --; APPENDIX: ON DOING FIELDWORK WITH CHILDREN --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800732537; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800732537
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: JM López.

Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional life course framework, it demonstrates how the transition to motherhood is never complete. Once a good mother is defined, she becomes undefined, the goal posts moved, and the rules confronted.