Transformative MotherhoodOur consumer culture sets exacting standards and norms for what constitutes an ideal child. The tough realities of life often create children and child bearing and rearing circumstances that are outside the ideal. How do women whose experiences don't match the norm cope and adapt? How do they make sense of it to themselves and to the world? In a rich series of ethnographic case studies, Transformative Motherhood intimately conveys the experiences of