TY - BOOK AU - López,JM TI - Good Enough Mothers: Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico T2 - Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives SN - 9781800732520 AV - HV700.M4 U1 - 306.8743097275 23 PY - 2021///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Discrimination in medical care KW - Mexico KW - Chiapas KW - Family services KW - Maternal health services KW - Motherhood KW - Mothers KW - Services for KW - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Prejudice KW - bisacsh KW - Gender Studies and Sexuality, Anthropology (General) N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; Part I CONTEXTS --; Chapter 1 LA ORILLA: COLETAS AND COLONIALITY --; Part II CHILDBEARING POLITICS --; Chapter 2 BETY AND ROSA --; Chapter 3 BRIDGING THE GAP: BARRIO MIDWIVES --; Chapter 4 CRIS, SOFI AND ESME: THE BIRTH CENTRE --; Part III NURTURE WORK --; Chapter 5 LUPITA AND CARLITA --; Chapter 6 SARA, BANIA AND LILA: GOOD ENOUGH MOTHERS --; CONCLUSION: TRANSLATING A LOCAL-GLOBAL MATERNAL HEALTH --; APPENDIX: ON DOING FIELDWORK WITH CHILDREN --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas. Using a transitional life course framework, it demonstrates how the transition to motherhood is never complete. Once a good mother is defined, she becomes undefined, the goal posts moved, and the rules confronted UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800732537 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800732537 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800732537/original ER -