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Technology: Of Labor and Markets </em><br> (Review Essay)</p> <p>Ruby C. Tapia<br> <em>Race, Class, and the Photopolitics of Maternal <br> Re-Vision in Rickie Solinger’s Beggars and Choosers</em><br> (Art Essay)</p> <p>Laura Bier<br> <em>“The Family Is a Factory”: Gender, Citizenship, <br> and the Regulation of Reproduction in Postwar Egypt</em></p> <p>Psyche Williams-Forson<br> <em>Other Women Cooked for My Husband: <br> Negotiating Gender, Food, and Identities in an <br> African American/Ghanaian Household</em></p> <p><strong>Creative Writing:</strong> <br> Cindy Elmore, Sharon Erby, Lyn Lifshin</p> <p><strong>Cover Art:</strong><br> Priscilla Carrasco, <em>Migrant Mother</em>, 1967. </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr><a name="contents"></a> <td align="left" valign="top"><a name="contents" id="contents"></a></td> <td colspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><img src="../../_img/global/preface-nameplate.gif" alt="Contents" width="426" height="45" border="0" usemap="#Map2"> <map name="Map2" id="Map2"> <area shape="rect" coords="414,16,427,32" href="#preface"> <area shape="rect" coords="415,33,425,44" href="#bottom" alt="Down"> </map></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> <p>Recent years have produced startling changes in the practices of motherhood, an institution always historically conditioned but now reshaped by postmillennial technologies and neoliberal economics. This issue of Feminist Studies brings together a number of important essays that illustrate, analyze, and critique current developments in a range of social and historical contexts. Their geographical sites include Egypt, India, and the United States–assisted reproduction clinics, surrogate mothers’ hostels, Ghanaian-American kitchens, child custody courts, rural garbage dumps, breastfeeding chairs, and mothers’ beds. They address who can be a mother, the gendering of parents and children, how states seek to limit and to enforce motherhood, and what social choices determine who pays the costs and privileges of parenthood.</p> <p>The issue begins with Rajani Bhatia’s essay, “Constructing Gender from the Inside Out: Sex-Selection Practices in the United States,” which won the 2009 Feminist Studies Award for the best essay written by a graduate student accepted in that year. A feminist familiar with critiques of preferences for boys in India, Bhatia studies experimental and commercial practices that now allow families in the United States to select the sex of a child. Even though many of the well-off white women who use these services select girls rather than boys as their offspring, she still finds such practices problematic. Bhatia analyzes the rhetorics of popular journalism and pro-parenting Web sites to show how U.S. mothers tie gender to children’s sex and simultaneously create identities for themselves as mothers who fantasize about the pleasures of sharing ballet lessons and Barbie dolls with their daughters. Although their participants see themselves as empowered by the choices of new technologies and the market, Bhatia suggests that the analysis of “sex selection as a form of gender-based violence” in the less developed world might apply as well to the new technologies of sperm sorting and sex selection among privileged parents in the United States. <a href="http://www.feministstudies.org/pdf/30-39/36-2-preface.pdf">{READ MORE as PDF }</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.modularmerchant.com/clients/fsonline/product.php?pid=130">Order this issue (print)</a></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> <td align="left" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td></td> <td width="15"></td> <td width="411"></td> </tr>     </table> <a name="bottom"></a> </td> </tr> </table>  <P>  <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="0"> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" ><img src="../../_img/global/shim.gif" width="1" height="45"></td> </tr> <tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#330033" ><img src="../../_img/global/shim.gif" width="1" height="2"></td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#999999"> <td width="50%" align="center" valign="middle"> <p class="copyright"><br> Tel: 301.405.7415 | Fax: 301.405.8395<br> <br> © <script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">  </script> Feminist Studies, Inc. unless otherwise noted. 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