Mother matters : motherhood as discourse and practice : essays from the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering / edited by Andrea O'Reilly.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly -- DISCOURSE -- Labour signs : the semiotics of birthing / Andrea O'Reilly -- Fountains of love and loveliness : in praise of the dripping wet breast / Fiona Giles -- "He's calling her da da!" : a sociolinguistic analysis of the "lesbianism as disease" metaphor in child custody cases / Shari Kendall and Keller Magenau -- Un/titled : constructions of illegitimate motherhood as gender insurrection / Nicole Pietsch -- Black women and motherhood in contemporary cinematic science fiction / Carol B. Duncan -- Paid work, family work and the discourse of the full-time mother / Gillian Ranson -- The impossibility of 'natural parenting' for modern mothers : on social structure and the formation of habit / Petra Büskens -- Mama bear as domestic micro manager : the evolution of cultural ideas of motherhood in the Berenstain Bears Book Series, 1960-2000 / Jodi Vandenberg-Daves -- All you need is love : representations of maternal emotion in 'Working mother' magazine, 1995-1999 / Jillian M. Duquaine-Watson -- PRACTICE -- Becoming a mother / Diane S. Speier -- Drawing strength from our mothers : tapping the roots of black women's history / Cassie Premo Steele -- Stepping on maternal ground : reflections on becoming an 'other-mother' / Pamela J. Downe -- Queering maternity / Mielle Chandler -- Sons of feminists : learning from their talk / Joyce Castle -- Making connections between parenting and peace / Sara Ruddick -- "I've worked very hard and slept very little" : mothers on tenure track in academia / Alice Fothergill and Kathryn M. Feltey -- Troublesome practices : mothering, literature and ethics / Emily Jeremiah -- Developmental mothering in an African American community : from grandmothers to new mothers again / Priscilla Gibson.

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