TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction, Andrea O' Reilly and Martina Mullaney Mom' s Room, Victoria Bailey Heart of Fool' s Gold, A. S. ComptonSECTION ONE: MISSING MOTHER IN SOCIETY1. Absent(ed) Mothers in Ireland and elsewhere: Erasures of Maternity in Adoption Law, Policy, and Literature, Alice Diver2. The Missing Maternal Body in the Narratives of Young Catholic and Muslim Mothers in Poland, Joanna Krotofil, Dorota Wó jciak and Dagmara Metel3. The Missing Mother, Feminisms ghettoization of artists with children,Martina Mullaney4. Unseen and Unheard: How the histories of missing mothers informed The Aprons of Power performances, Rachel Fallon5. Art's Otherwised Orphans: conceiving the disoeuvre, recognising art's cultural mothers, Felicity Allen6.

Mother Ireland and Missing Mothers: Staging Maternal Encounters in Alanna O' Kelly' s The Country Blooms - A Garden and A Grave (1990-1996), Kate Antosik-Parsons7. The Re-Generative Potential of Myth in Re-Constituting the Missing Mother, Martina Cleary SECTION TWO; MISSING MOTHER IN SELF 8. Critiquing, Correcting, Defying, and Displacing Normative Motherhood: Reading Five Narratives of Mothers Who Leave as Demon Texts: Hiroshima in the Morning by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn, The Shame by Makenna Goodman, I Love You But I' ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins, and When I Ran Away by Ilona Bannister, Andrea O' Reilly9. The Missing Mother in King Lear, Emma Dalton 10. Fictions of Maternity: Reading and Re-writing the Mother in Three Narratives of the Abandoned Wife, Jill Marsden11. Making Masculine Maternity Visible in A.K. Summers' Pregnant Butch, Christa Baiada12.

Mother to the Other, Ciara Healy13. Pregnancy, Postpartum, and OnlyFans: Missing and Absented Performances of Motherhood, Clara Kundin.