Acknowledgments
Introduction
Janelle S. Taylor
Con-Texts
Motherhood under Capitalism
Barbara Katz Rothman
How Infants Grow Mothers in North London
Daniel Miller
Contributions
Maternity and Materiality: Becoming a Mother in Consumer Culture
Alison J. Clarke
What Will I Do with All the Toys Now? Consumption and the Signification of Kinship in U.S. Fostering Relationships
Danielle F. Wozniak
“Too Bad You Got a Lemon”: Peter Singer, Mothers of Children with Disabilities, and the Critique of Consumer Culture
Gail Landsman
Making Memories: Trauma, Choice, and Consumer Culture in the Case of Pregnancy Loss
Linda L. Layne
Maternal Labor in a Transnational Circuit
Ann Anagnost
Going “Home”: Adoption, Exclusive Belongings, and the Mythology of Roots
Barbara Yngvesson
A Fetish Is Born: Sonographers and the Making of the Public Fetus
Janelle S. Taylor
Consuming Childbirth: The Qualified Commodification of Midwifery Care
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
Mothers between God and Mammon: Feminist Interpretations of Childbirth
Pamela E. Klassen
Commentaries
Commoditizing Kinship in America
Igor Kopytoff
Caught in the Current
Barbara Katz Rothman
References Cited
Contributors
Index