Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Delivering Mothering Studies
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt and Pegeen Reichert Powell


Part 1. Feminist Interventions in Public Discourse

1. Contrapuntal Delivery and Reception of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Electrovocal Performance Work on Mothering, Moments of Laughter
Andra McCartney 

2. The Empty Mirror No More: Mother-Daughter Relationship and Film Spectatorship in Patricia Cardoso’s Real Women Have Curves
Nan Ma 

3. Cyborg Mothering
Shelley Park 

4. “Mommyblogging Is a Radical Act”: Weblog Communities and the Construction of Maternal Identities
Lisa Hammond 

5. “The Pencilling Mamma”: Public Motherhood in Alice Meynell’sEssays on Children
Lee Behlman 

6. Picturing Mom: Mythic and Real Mothers in Children’s Picture Books
Gretchen Papazian


Part 2. Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal Discourse

7. More than Talk: Single Mothers Claiming Space and Subjectivity on the University Campus
Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson 

8. From Postcolonial to Postpartum: Pedagogical Politics of Motherhood
Jocelyn Fenton Stitt 

9. Constrained Agency: British Heterosexual Mothers of Homosexual Sons
Janet Peukert 

10. Writing the Script: Finding a Language for Mothering 
Lynn Kuechle 

11. From Gestation to Delivery: The Embodied Activist Mothering of Cindy Sheehan and Jennifer Schumaker
Natalie Wilson 

12. Political Motherhood in the United States and Argentina
Meghan Gibbons 


Epilogue: Power in a Movement
Judith Stadtman Tucker 


List of Contributors
Index