?Introduction? Andrea O?ReillySECTION ONE: Resistances?the alarm? Tracey RoweChapter One: ??Out of bounds?: Maternal Regret and the Reframing of Normative Motherhood? Andrea O?ReillyChapter Two: ??I Don?t Want To Be a Mom Anymore?: Rhetoric of Maternal Resentment?Lorin Basden ArnoldChapter Three: ??Reimaging What Might Have Been? A Comparative Analysis of Abortion and Maternal Regret? Alesha E. Doan and J. Shoshanna EhrlichChapter Four: ?Shocking Readers and Shaking Taboos: Maternal Body and Affects in It? Hiromi?s Work? Juliana Buriticá AlzateChapter Five: ?The Sublimation of Maternal Regret in HBO?s Big Little Lies (2017)? Rachel WilliamsonChapter Six: ??My Yes, My First and Only? Dealing with Assumptions of Regret about Family Size? Karla KnutsonSECTION TWO: RenunciationsChapter Seven: ?The Children Leave: Maternal Abandonment in Two Munro Stories: ?Silence? (2004) and ?Deep-Holes? (2009)? Laurie KrukChapter Eight: ?Love and Longing; Silence and Strife: What Went Wrong?? Jane TuroChapter Nine: ?My mother?s story? Kanchan TrapathiSECTION THREE: Reflections?Her Response (To Frost?s Question)? Victoria Bailey.Chapter Ten: ?Pernicious Narratives Adoption and Disability Chronicles That Coarsen and Corrupt Their Readers? Martha SatzChapter Eleven: ?Time Machine? Jessica JennrichChapter Twelve:? From Mourning to Greeting: The Predicament and Possibilities of Maternal Regret? BettyAnn Martin and Michelann ParrChapter Thirteen: ?Minjinaweziwin: Anishinaabeg Women?s Teachings on Maternal Regret? Renee E. Mazinegiizhigoo-kwe BedardChapter Fourteen: ?(How) Can We Speak of This?? Opening into the Dark Spaces of Maternal Regret, Choice, and the Unknowable? May Friedman and Jacqui Gingras.