"Brave old" motherhood: Beyond biological boundaries

Beyond binaries in motherhood research

Alternative modes of inquiry in qualitative research, in particular the experiments in genre, voice, narrative and interpretation that have so enlivened recent debates in ethnography and the social sciences, were notably absent. What is puzzling about this lack is that the highly contested and ideological domain of motherhood and the family is just the kind of research area to richly benefit fr...

The Safe Motherhood Initiative and beyond.

In 2007, the Safe Motherhood Initiative is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Many countries have been able to improve the health and well-being of mothers and newborns over the last 20 years. However, countries with the highest burdens of mortality and illness have made the least progress, and inequalities between countries are increasing. In many places, inequalities within countries are incre...

Procreative liberty, biological connections, and motherhood.

Given the complex and dramatic array of issues currently facing us in reproductive ethics, bioethicists working on the topic might be forgiven feelings of trepidation when they cast their minds toward the next century. Currently, technologies such as artificial insemination by donor (AID), once the source of intense controversy, are used on a routine basis; mainstream newspapers carry advertise...

Telework: Working Beyond Organizatinoal Boundaries

CAST 2008: Beyond the Boundaries

For years, people have appealed to engineering as the dominant metaphor for how software testing should be done. Yet there are many other metaphors that could provide value to learning about patterns and principles in software testing. As professional testers and nonprofessional musicians, we observe that music affords such a metaphor. What are the parallels between music and testing—especially...