“Global Motherhood”: The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity

Abstract

This essay examines white femininity as a transnational phenomenon. Specifially, the essay addresses the representational logics of whiteness through which contemporary white women are positioned as “global” mothers in popular culture. The larger goal of this is to illustrate how “intimate” relations of race, gender, sexuality, and colonialism are negotiated and managed in contemporary positionings of white women as “global mothers.”

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Raka Shome (2011). “Global Motherhood”: The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity. Critical Studies in Media Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295036.2011.589861

@article{raka2011global,
  title  = {“Global Motherhood”: The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity},
  author = {Shome, Raka},
  year   = {2011},
  journal = {Critical Studies in Media Communication},
  doi    = {10.1080/15295036.2011.589861}
}

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