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Through an analysis of policy texts, population statistics, and the popular press, this article advances knowledge about working motherhood in the contemporary US and proposes a refinement to how wage-work/care-work relations are conceptualised. I focus on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2011 which grants certain rights and protections to women seeking to combine lactation with wage-work. I argue that this policy represents a form of work–life integration that is particularly burdensome for working mothers, and that expectations relating to working motherhood in the contemporary US are being reshaped around the demands of neoliberalism, producing what I term 'neoliberal motherhood'. I assert that this policy represents a way of combining wage-work and care-work that is not captured within existing conceptualisations, and suggest that a re-working of theory in this area is needed to address cases in which embodied care-work is enfolded within the time and space of wage-work.

Exploring what it means to enact feminist geography, this book joins cases of collaborative research with social justice activist movements. From Black feminist organizing in the American South to feminist geography collectives in Latin America, the book showcases activist-engaged scholarship from the global north and south.

"Is there such a thing as a "feminist technology"? If so, what makes a technology feminist? Is it in the design process, in the thing itself, in the way it is marketed, or in the way it is used by women (or by men)? In this collection, feminist scholars trained in diverse fields consider these questions by examining a range of products, tools, and technologies that were specifically designed for and marketed to women. Evaluating the claims that such products are liberating for women, the contributors focus on case studies of menstrual-suppressing birth control pills, home pregnancy tests, tampons, breast pumps, Norplant, anti-fertility vaccines, and microbicides. In examining these various products, this volume explores ways of actively intervening to develop better tools for designing, promoting, and evaluating feminist technologies. Recognizing the different needs and desires of women and acknowledging the multiplicity of feminist approaches, Feminist Technology offers a sustained debate on existing and emergent technologies that share the goal of improving women's lives." -- Back cover