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About the Authors List of Abbreviations List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Good Motherhood in a Time of Demographic Anxieties and Femonationalisms. Introduction. Chapter 2. Mothers We Care For and Mothers We Care About: Redefining Good Motherhood through Maternal Activism in Contemporary Lithuania Chapter 3. Preservation of the Nation Needs Womens Care : Authoritarianism, Demographic Anxiety, and Mediated Religion in the Russian Federation Chapter 4. What Is the Problem with Migrant Mothers in Sweden? Politicians Femonationalist Narratives on Migrant Mothers and Mothering Chapter 5. Being a Good Mother : Navigating National Motherhood Ideals and Realities among Post-Socialist (Muslim) Migrant Mothers Chapter 6. Femonationalism, Militarism, and Resistances to Authoritarian Good Motherhood in Russia Afterword Bibliography Appendices Index

This book explores constructions of the good mother within diverse nations and nationalisms, focusing on three contexts grappling with distinct forms of demographic anxiety. Inspired by Sara Farris inquiry into femonationalism and utilizing maternalism and politics of care as critical theoretical instruments, the book analyses the evolving political and social expectations imposed upon mothers in Lithuania, migrant mothers, including postsocialist migrant mothers from Central Asia and Caucasus in Sweden, and women in the militarizing authoritarian Russian states construction of maternity within its traditional values agenda. It also probes both how good motherhood is enacted and contested by individual mothers, as well as how it is mobilized in resisting conservative, ethnonationalist tendencies and militarism (in the case of Russia). The books chapters illuminate the roles of political and social actors engaged with renegotiating materialist politics-such as grassroots birth activist movements and maternalist social policy campaigns-as well as those defying militarism.