Feminism and the politics of childhood : friends or foes? / edited by Rachel Rosen and Katherine Twamley.

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Feminism and the Politics of Childhood offers an innovative and critical exploration of perceived commonalities and conflicts between women and children and, more broadly, between various forms of feminism and the politics of childhood. This unique collection of 18 chapters brings into dialogue authors from a range of geographical contexts, social science disciplines, activist organisations, and theoretical perspectives. The wide variety of subjects include refugee camps, care labour, domestic violence and childcare and education. Chapter authors focus on local contexts as well as their global interconnections, and draw on diverse theoretical traditions such as poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, posthumanism, postcolonialism, political economy, and the ethics of care. Together the contributions offer new ways to conceptualise relations between women and children, and to address injustices faced by both groups.

Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Tense Encounters: Gender and Generation -- 1.A necessary struggle-in-relation? / Erica Burman -- 2. Working-class women and children in Grassroots Women / Merryn Edwards -- 3. When the rights of children prevail over the rights of their caretakers: A case study in the community homes of Bogota, Colombia / Susana Borda Carulla -- 4. Thinking through childhood and maternal studies: A feminist encounter / Lisa Baraitser -- 5. Notes on unlearning: Our feminisms, their childhoods / Oishik Sircar -- 6. Ideal women, invisible girls? The challenges of/to feminist solidarity in the Sahrawi Refugee Camps / Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh -- 7.A `sort of sanctuary' / Rachel Rosen -- Section 2 Life's Work -- 8. Love, labour and temporality: Reconceptualising social reproduction with women and children in the frame / Jan Newberry -- 9. Caring labour as the basis for movement building / Rachel Rosen

Note continued: 10. Care labour as temporal vulnerability in woman -- child relations / Patricia Espinoza-Revollo -- 11. International commercial surrogacy: Beyond feminist conundrums and the child as product / Kristen E. Cheney -- 12. Stratified maternity in the barrio: Mothers and children in Argentine social programs / Nara Milanich -- 13. Decolonising childrearing and challenging the patriarchal nuclear family through Indigenous knowledges: An Opokaa'sin project / Tanya Pace-Crosschild -- Section 3 Political Projects and Movement Building -- 14.`Too Young to Wed': Envisioning a `generous encounter' between feminism and the politics of childhood / Virginia Caputo -- 15. Feminists' strategic role in early childhood education / Fransisca Yuni Dhamayanti -- 16.`Gimme shelter'? Complicating responses to family violence / Lucy Neville -- 17. Becoming-woman, becoming-child: A joint political programme / Ohad Zehavi

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