Introduction 11Andrea O?ReillySECTION ONE 15Chapter 1 Introduction from Of Woman Born 17Adrienne RichChapter 2 Anger and Tenderness 23Adrienne RichChapter 3 Early Psychological Development: Psychoanalysis 39and the Sociology of GenderNancy ChodorowChapter 4 In Search of Our Mothers? Gardens 61Alice WalkerChapter 5 Maternal Thinking 69Sara RuddickChapter 6 Revolutionary Parenting 87bell hooksChapter 7 Homeplace: A Site of Resistance 99bell hooksChapter 8 Man Child: A Black Lesbian Feminist?s Response 107Audre LordeChapter 9 The Radical Potential in Lesbian Mothering of Daughters 113Baba CopperChapter 10 It?s Only Natural 121Valerie Walkerdine and Helen LuceyChapter 11 Unspeakable Plots 135Marianne HirschChapter 12 The Meaning of Motherhood in Black Culture 151and Black Mother-Daughter RelationshipsPatricia Hill CollinsChapter 13 Shifting the Center: Race, Class and Feminist 167Theorizing About MotherhoodPatricia Hill CollinsChapter 14 The Myths of Motherhood 187Shari L. ThurerChapter 15 Beyond Mothers and Fathers: Ideology in a 201Patriarchal SocietyBarbara Katz RothmanChapter 16 Why Can?t a Mother Be More Like a Businessman? 219Sharon HaysChapter 17 A Sketch in Progress: Introducing the Mother 243Without ChildElaine Tuttle HansenChapter 18 Faking Motherhood: The Mask Revealed 273Susan MaushartChapter 19 Mothering and Feminism: Essential Mothering 295and the Dilemma of DifferencePatrice DiQuinzioChapter 20 The Omnipotent Mother: A Psychoanalytic Study 309of Fantasy and RealityJessica BenjaminChapter 21 Don?t Blame Mother: Then and Now 327Paula J. CaplanChapter 22 The New Momism 337Susan J. Douglas and Meredith W. MichaelsChapter 23 The ?Problem? of Maternal Desire: Essential Mothering 361and the Dilemma of DifferenceDaphne de MarneffeChapter 24 The Motherhood Religion 377Judith WarnerChapter 25 Domestic Intellectuals: Freedom and the Single Mom 399Jane JufferMATERNAL THEORY: ESSENTIAL READINGSChapter 26 High Risk: Who a Mother Should Be 429Ariel GoreChapter 27 Resisting, But Not Too Much: Interrogating the 435Paradox of Natural MotheringChris BobelChapter 28 Con el Palote en Una Mano y el Libro en la Otra 445Larissa Mercado-LópezSection One Copyright Acknowledgements 451SECTION TWO 455Chapter 29 Matricentric Feminism: A Feminism for Mothers 457Andrea O?ReillyChapter 30 Normative Motherhood 477Andrea O?ReillyChapter 31 Maternal Subjectivities 493Alison StoneChapter 32 The Category of the Postmaternal in Contemporary 505Maternal TheoryJulie StephensChapter 33 The New Sexual Contract: One Step Forward and 517Two Steps BackPetra BueskensChapter 34 Detangling Wifehood and Motherhood 539Lynn O?Brien HallsteinChapter 35 Maternal Ambivalence 555Sarah LaChance AdamsChapter 36 Maternal Regret 567Andrea O?ReillyChapter 37 Monstrous Mothers 579Abigail L. PalkoChapter 38 Feminist Fathering: Why It Should Matter to All 593Who MotherNicole L. Willey and Dan FriedmanChapter 39 Empowered and Feminist Mothering 607Andrea O?ReillyChapter 40 Maternal Activism 629Danielle PoeChapter 41 The Motherline 643Fiona Joy GreenChapter 42 Reconceiving Young Motherhood 663Sarah BekaertChapter 43 Disabled Mothers 675Gloria Filax and Dena TaylorChapter 44 Reclaiming Black Motherhood: Centering Maternal 689Activism on Birth and Breastfeeding JusticeKimberly Seals AllersChapter 45 Indigenous Mothering: New Insights on Giving Life 697to the PeopleJennifer Brant and Kim AndersonChapter 46 The Migrant Maternal: Theory and Practice 719Anna Kuroczycka Schultes and Helen VallianatosChapter 47 Cosmopolitan Maternalisms 733Bittiandra Chand SomaiahChapter 48 Reproductive Justice in the Heartland: Mothering, 745Maternal Care, and Race in Twenty-First-Century IowaLina-Maria Murillo and Natalie Fixmer-OraizChapter 49 Mothering in a Neoliberal World 763Melinda Vandenbeld GilesChapter 50 Queer Possibilities: Unnatural Mothers and Other 783 AberrationsShelley M. ParkChapter 51 Forging Crossroads: The Possibilities and Complexities 795of Parenting Outside the Gender BinaryOlivia FischerChapter 52 Trans Parenting 807Damien W.

Riggs, Sally Hines, Ruth Pearce, Carla A. Pfeffer,and Francis Ray WhiteChapter 53 Understanding and Recognizing Voluntary 817Non-MotherhoodJulie Rodgers.