Susan Goodwin is senior lecturer in policy studies at the University of Sydney.Kate Huppatz is a lecturer in sociology at Western Sydney University.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authors 1. The good mother in theory and research: an overviewSusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz2. Good executive, good mother: contradictory devotionsColleen Chesterman and Anne Ross-Smith3. Mother of all constructions: mothers in male-dominated workLouisa Smith4. Mothers making class distinctions: the aesthetics of maternitySusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz5. Good mothers go school shoppingClaire Aitchison6. The good mother and the high school: a view from the 20th centuryHelen Proctor7. Mothers and mutual obligation: policy reforming the good motherMegan Blaxland8. Misrepresenting Indigenous mothers: maternity allowances in the mediaLeanne Cutcher and Talila Milroy9. Aboriginal mother yarnsJane Moore and Lynette Riley10. Mother impossible: the experiences of lesbian parentsMargot Rawsthorne11. Being a real mother: adoptive mothers’ experiencesDenise LynchIndex

Susan Goodwin is senior lecturer in policy studies at the University of Sydney.Kate Huppatz is a lecturer in sociology at Western Sydney University.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authors 1. The good mother in theory and research: an overviewSusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz2. Good executive, good mother: contradictory devotionsColleen Chesterman and Anne Ross-Smith3. Mother of all constructions: mothers in male-dominated workLouisa Smith4. Mothers making class distinctions: the aesthetics of maternitySusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz5. Good mothers go school shoppingClaire Aitchison6. The good mother and the high school: a view from the 20th centuryHelen Proctor7. Mothers and mutual obligation: policy reforming the good motherMegan Blaxland8. Misrepresenting Indigenous mothers: maternity allowances in the mediaLeanne Cutcher and Talila Milroy9. Aboriginal mother yarnsJane Moore and Lynette Riley10. Mother impossible: the experiences of lesbian parentsMargot Rawsthorne11. Being a real mother: adoptive mothers’ experiencesDenise LynchIndex

Susan Goodwin is senior lecturer in policy studies at the University of Sydney.Kate Huppatz is a lecturer in sociology at Western Sydney University.

• AcknowledgementsAbout the authors 1. The good mother in theory and research: an overviewSusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz2. Good executive, good mother: contradictory devotionsColleen Chesterman and Anne Ross-Smith3. Mother of all constructions: mothers in male-dominated workLouisa Smith4. Mothers making class distinctions: the aesthetics of maternitySusan Goodwin and Kate Huppatz5. Good mothers go school shoppingClaire Aitchison6. The good mother and the high school: a view from the 20th centuryHelen Proctor7. Mothers and mutual obligation: policy reforming the good motherMegan Blaxland8. Misrepresenting Indigenous mothers: maternity allowances in the mediaLeanne Cutcher and Talila Milroy9. Aboriginal mother yarnsJane Moore and Lynette Riley10. Mother impossible: the experiences of lesbian parentsMargot Rawsthorne11. Being a real mother: adoptive mothers’ experiencesDenise LynchIndex