Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Motherhood as Institution
6. The Supreme Court of Canada and What It Means to Be “Of Woman Born” 27
7. Of Party-State Born 45
8. Murderous Mothers 59
9. Mothering as Experience
10. “We Have Mama but No Papa” 75
11. Mother as Transformer 89
12. Of Woman (but Not Man or the Nuclear Family) Born 103
13. Feminist Mothers 125
14. Immortality and Morality in Contemporary Reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone Myth 137
15. Mothering against Motherhood and the Possibility of Empowered Maternity for Mothers and Their Children 159
16. The Broken Shovel 175
17. Narrating Maternity
18. Adrienne Rich’s “Clearing in the Imagination” 195
19. A “Sense of Drift” 209
20. Beginning with “I” 223
21. Contributors 241
22. Index 245