Mothers Who Deliver

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Pegeen Reichert Powell is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Delivering Mothering StudiesJocelyn Fenton Stitt and Pegeen Reichert Powell Part 1. Feminist Interventions in Public Discourse1. Contrapuntal Delivery and Reception of Hildegard Westerkamp’s Electrovocal Performance Work on Mothering, Moments of LaughterAndra McCartney 2. The Empty Mirror No More: Mother-Daughter Relationship and Film Spectatorship in Patricia Cardoso’s Real Women Have CurvesNan Ma 3. Cyborg MotheringShelley Park 4. "Mommyblogging Is a Radical Act": Weblog Communities and the Construction of Maternal IdentitiesLisa Hammond 5. "The Pencilling Mamma": Public Motherhood in Alice Meynell’sEssays on ChildrenLee Behlman 6. Picturing Mom: Mythic and Real Mothers in Children’s Picture BooksGretchen Papazian Part 2. Feminist Interventions in Interpersonal Discourse7. More than Talk: Single Mothers Claiming Space and Subjectivity on the University CampusJillian M. Duquaine-Watson 8. From Postcolonial to Postpartum: Pedagogical Politics of MotherhoodJocelyn Fenton Stitt 9. Constrained Agency: British Heterosexual Mothers of Homosexual SonsJanet 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 SchumakerNatalie Wilson 12. Political Motherhood in the United States and ArgentinaMeghan Gibbons Epilogue: Power in a MovementJudith Stadtman Tucker List of ContributorsIndex