Consuming Motherhood or Dilemmas of International Trade

Consuming Motherhood

Author: Janelle S Ed Taylor

"An intellectually courageous, fresh, and timely collection of essays . . . .This cutting edge volume breathes new life into reproduction studies." -Lynn M. Morgan, Mount Holyoke College

"Brings together well-known and accomplished scholars to reveal and analyze the complexities of the collision between motherhood and consumption . . . . a well-integrated and surprisingly original volume." -Sarah Franklin, author of Embodied Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception

Consuming Motherhood addresses the provocative question of how motherhood and consumption-as ideologies and as patterns of social action-mutually shape and constitute each other in contemporary North American and European social life. Ideologically, motherhood and consumption are often constructed in opposition to each other, with motherhood standing in as a naturalized social relation that is thought to be uniquely free of the calculating instrumentality that dominates commercial relations. Yet, in social life, motherhood and consumption are inseparable. Whether shopping for children's clothing or childbirth services, or making decisions about adopting children, becoming a mother (and maternal practice more generally) is deeply influenced by consumption. How can the relationship between motherhood and consumption be revealed, and critically analyzed? Consuming Motherhood brings together a group of sociologists, anthropologists, and religious studies scholars to address this question through carefully grounded ethnographic studies. This insightful book reveals how mothers negotiate the contradictory forces that position them as both immune from and the target of consumerist tendencies in contemporary globalsociety.

Janelle S. Taylor is an assistant professor at the University of Washington. Linda L. Layne is Hale Professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Danielle F. Wozniak is a research scientist and adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut.

Interesting book: The Opposable Mind or The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

Dilemmas of International Trade, Vol. 2

Author: Bruce Moon

In the post–Cold War world, trade is the new arena for competition—between nations, between groups, between ethical and theoretical ideas. Political economist Bruce Moon puts contemporary trade events—NAFTA, United States–Japan controversies, the Uruguay Round of GATT, China’s Most Favored Nation status, the founding of the World Trade Organization—into historical and theoretical perspective with the British Corn Laws, the Great Depression, the Bretton Woods system, and the origins of the European Union. Economic theory, terms, and concepts are clearly explained and contextualized with those from international relations.Throughout the book, three central dilemmas are examined: the unequal distribution of income and wealth created by international trade, the tradeoff among competing values that trade requires, and the difficult interrelationship between economic and foreign policy goals within and among trading nations. Though internationally framed, each dilemma has ramifications at a variety of levels all the way down to the individual’s role in the global economy—as a consumer, as a citizen, and ultimately as a moral agent.

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First published by the Siberian branch of Nauka in 1983, used as a standard textbook at the University of Novosibirsk, and here translated and revised from the 1995 second edition. A concise guide to some of the basic aspects of modern functional analysis, providing complete proofs for over 100 famous named theorems. The second edition includes new sections on the Schwartz spaces of distributions, Radon measures, and supplementary theoretical exercises and problems. Other topics include Banach and Hilbert spaces, multinormal and uniform spaces, and the Riesz-Dunford holomorphic functional calculus. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	List of Tables and Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	List of Acronyms
1	Trade and Trade Issues	1
2	The Theoretical and Historical Origins of Trade Issues	23
3	The Politics of Protectionism	53
4	The International Politics of Trade	71
5	Neomercantilism and Bilateral Trade Issues	93
6	Regional Integration	123
7	Looking Ahead	149
	Discussion Questions	159
	Notes	161
	Suggested Readings	175
	Glossary	177
	About the Book and Author	185
	Books in This Series	187
	Index	189