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  • Introduction /
  • Andrea O'Reilly & Marie Porter
  • The kindest cut? the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1990 /
  • Lisa Featherstone
  • Narrating breasts: constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories /
  • Susanne Gannon & Babette Müller-Rockstroh
  • Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city /
  • Alison Bartlett
  • "Pax Materna" or Mothers at war with the empire?... /
  • Karin Ikas
  • Mothering and stress discourses: ... /
  • Erika Horwitz & Bonita C. Long
  • A lesser woman? fictional representations of the childless woman /
  • Enza Gandolfo
  • (Mis)conceptions: the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye & Paradise /
  • Human and divine mothers in Hinduism /
  • Tamara Ditrich
  • Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore /
  • Hing Ai Yun
  • Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel /
  • Ruby Newman
  • Down Under power? Australian mothering experiences ... /
  • Marie Porter
  • Mothers at home: oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? /
  • Elizabeth Reid Boyd
  • Mothers at the margins: ... /
  • Patricia Short
  • Naming maternal alienation /
  • Anne Morris
  • Women of courage: the non-custodial mother /
  • Julie Thacker
  • Abandoning mothers and their children /
  • Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender & Rosemary Aris
  • When Eve left the garden: a modern tale about mothers who leave their families /
  • Petra Büskens
  • Conclusion: reflections on motherhood /
  • Patricia Short.