Redefining Motherhood

Table of Contents

Introduction
Sharon Abbey & Andrea O'Reilly

PART I: Disrupting Maternal Patterns at Home, School and Work

Chapter 1
Comparing How Mothers Influence the Education of Daughters and Sons
Sharon Abbey, Joyce Castly & Cecilia Reynolds

Chapter 2
"Does the word LESBIAN Mean Anthing to You?"
Lesbians Raising Daughters
Katherine Arnup

Chapter 3
Across the Divide: Contemporary Anglo-American Feminist Threory on the Mother-Daugher Relationship
Andrea O'Reilly

Chapter 4
Mothers as Teachers - Teachers as Mothers
Alice Collins

Chapter 5
Written on the Body
Rishma Dunlop

PART II: Maternal Values and Identities in Transition from Adolesence to Mid-Life

Chapter 6
Teenage Girls Making Sense of Mothering: What Has (Relational) Equality Got To Do With It?
Arlene Tigar McLaren & Ann Vanderbijl

Chapter 7
Mother to Daughter: The Shaping of a Girl's Values in the Context of a Parent with a Chronic Illness
Karen A. Blackford

Chapter 8
Motherhood, Changing Relationships and the Reproduction of Gender Inequality
Bonnie Fox

Chapter 9
Unravelling the Myth of the Perfect Mother with Mothers of Early Adolescent Girls
Elizabeth Diem

PART III: The Motherline: Personal and Historical Narratives

Chapter 10
Between Exile and Home
Martha McMahon

Chapter 11
Black Women and the Meaning of Motherhood
Nina Lyon Jenkins

Chapter 12
The Experience of Mother Loss: Voices of Adult Daughters and Implications for Feminist Practice
May Valentich & Catherine Foote

Chapter 13
If You Die It Will Kill Me: Aborting Maternal History
Erin Soros

Chapter 14
African Nova Scotian Women: Mothering Across the Generations
Syvia Hamilton

PART IV: Multiple Identities of Motherhood: Rights, Choices and Divergence

Chapter 15
The Other Within the Self: Black Daughter, White Mother and the Narrative Construction of Identity
Elizabeth Yeoman

Chapter 16
Emancipated Subjectivities and the Subjugation of Mothering Practices Mielle Chandler

Chapter 17
Mothering the Well-Born: Choice as a System of Governance
Fiona Alice MIller & Melanie Rock

Chapter 18
Mothers for "Hire": Why Do Women Foster?
Baukje (Bo) Miedema

Study Notes
Glossary
Contributors