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The essays in this work examine how consumer culture both constrains and empowers contemporary motherhood. The collection demonstrates that the logic of consumerism and entrepreneurship has redefined both the experience of mothering and the marketplace. The Motherhood Business follows the harried mother's path into the anxious maelstrom of intelligent toys, healthy foods and meals, and educational choices. It also traces how some enterprising mothers leverage cultural capital and rhetorical vision to create thriving baby- and child-based businesses of their own, as evidenced by the rise of mommy bloggers and "mompreneurs" over the last decade.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Reframing Motherhood: Factoring in Consumption and Privilege - Anne Teresa Demo -- 1. The Golden Egg: The Business of Making Mothers through Egg Donation - Charlotte Kroløkke -- 2. Race(ing) to the Baby Market: The Political Economy of Overcoming Infertility - K. Animashaun Ducre -- 3. A Baby "Made in India": Motherhood, Consumerism, and Privilege in Transnational Surrogacy - Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen -- 4. "We Were Introduced to Foods I Never Even Heard of": Parents as Consumers on Reality Television - Cynthia Gordon -- 5. Cultivating Community within the Commercial Marketplace: Blurred Boundaries in the "Mommy" Blogosphere - Jennifer L. Borda -- 6. Mompreneurs: Homemade Organic Baby Food and the Commodification of Intensive Mothering - Kara N. Dillard -- 7. Maternal Crime in a Cathedral of Consumption - Sara Hayden -- 8. "Don't Worry, Mama Will Fix It!": Playing with the Mama Myth in Video Games - Shira Chess -- 9. Motherhood and the Necessity of Invention: The Possibilities of Play in a Culture of Consumption - Christine Harold -- 10. Choosing to Consume: Race, Education, and the School Voucher Debate - Lisa A. Flores -- Suggested Readings -- Contributors -- Index.

Border Rhetorics is a collection of essays that undertakes a wide-ranging examination of the US-Mexico border as it functions in the rhetorical production of civic unity in the United States. A "border" is a powerful and versatile concept, variously invoked as the delineation of geographical territories, as a judicial marker of citizenship, and as an ideological trope for defining inclusion and exclusion. It has implications for both the empowerment and subjugation of any given populace. Both real and imagined, the border separates a zone of physical and symbolic exchange whose geographical, political, economic, and cultural interactions bear profoundly on popular understandings and experiences of citizenship and identity. The border's rhetorical significance is nowhere more apparent, nor its effects more concentrated, than on the frontier between the United States and Mexico. Often understood as an unruly boundary in dire need of containment from the ravages of criminals, illegal aliens, and other undesirable threats to the national body, this geopolitical locus exemplifies how normative constructions of "proper"; border relations reinforce definitions of US citizenship, which in turn can lead to anxiety, unrest, and violence centered around the struggle to define what it means to be a member of a national political community. Contributors Bernadette Marie Calafell / Karma R. Chávez / Josue David Cisneros / D. Robert DeChaine / Anne Teresa Demo / Lisa A. Flores / Dustin Bradley Goltz / Marouf Hasian Jr. / Michelle A. Holling / Julia R. Johnson / Zach Juatus / Diane M. Keeling / John Louis Lucaites / George F. McHendry Jr. / Toby Miller / Kent A. Ono / Brian L. Ott / Kimberlee Pérez / Mary Ann Villarreal.