The spring/summer 2012 issue of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative (JMI) – Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering – looks at everything from the discursive foundations of family allowance and universal child care to the value of human milk exchange.
JMI is a peer-reviewed, Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded journal that is published bi-annually by the . It’s directed by its founder, 91ɫ women’s studies Professor Andrea O’Reilly, and is partnered with Demeter Press.
This issue includes 14 articles, seven book reviews and a poetry folio, featuring the work of Laurie Kruk.
The articles in the journal include: ‘Commodifying the Fetus’, ‘The Economics and Politics of Delayed Birth Timing’, ‘Mothers, Milk and Money: Maternal Corporeal Generosity, Social Psychological Trust, and Value in Human Milk Exchange’ and ‘From “Need” to “Risk”: The Neoliberal Construction of the “Bad” Mother’.
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