This special issue on “Mothers and the Economy: The Economics of Mothering” features 14 articles, 7 book reviews, and a special poetry folio featuring the work of Laurie Kruk. Articles include: • ”CEDAW as a Tool to Ensure Economic Equality for Mothers in Canada” • ”Singled Out and Left Behind: Canadian Lone Mothers in a Time of Plenty” • ”Funding and Framing Families: An Analysis of the Discursive Foundations of Family Allowance and the Universal Child Care Benefit” • ”Canadian Parental Benefits Program: Challenging or Supporting the Gendered Organization” • ”Commodifying the Fetus” • ”The Economics and Politics of Delayed Birth Timing” • ”Mothers, Milk and Money: Maternal Corporeal Generosity, Social Psychological Trust, and Value in Human Milk Exchange” • ”From “Need” to “Risk”: The Neoliberal Construction of the “Bad” Mother” • and many more!

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