Using feminist, existential, ethical, aesthetic, phenomenological, social and political theories, the contributors to this book consider topics including pregnancy and embodiment, breast-feeding, representations ¿ or the lack thereof ¿ of pregnant and birthing women, adoption, and post-partum motherhood.

Introduction Sheila Lintott and Maureen Sander-Staudt Part 1: Maternal Norms, Practices, and Insights 1. Sara Ruddick, Transracial Adoption, and the Goals of Maternal Practice Jean Keller 2. Where Did I Go? The Invisible Postpartum Mother Jennifer Benson and Allison Wolf 3. Into the Mouths of Babes: The Moral Responsibility to Breastfeed Christine Overall and Tabitha Bernard 4. Tales from the Tit: The Moral and Political Implications of Useless Lactational Suffering Lissa Skitolsky 5. Motherhood and the Workings of Disgust Sherri Irvin Part 2: Maternal Roles and Relations 6. The Practical and Theoretical Challenges of Mothering with Disabilities: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis Maeve M. O'Donovan 7. Mothers, Children with Disability, and Post-Modern Sainthood Christine A. James 8. Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Dynamics of Mothering a Daughter Alison Stone 9. Why Don't Philosophers Tell Their Mothers¿ Stories? Philosophy, Motherhood, and Imaginative Resistance Joshua Shaw 10. On Stepmothers as Hybrid Beings & World-Travelers: Towards a New Model for Care-ful Ethics Beckey Sukovaty Part 3: Maternal Phenomena, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics 11. Creating Life, Giving Birth, and Learning to Die Brooke Schueneman 12. The Pregnant Body as a Public Body: An Occasion for Community Care, Instrumental Coercion, and a Singular Collectivity Julie Piering 13. Becoming Bovine: A Phenomenology of Early Motherhood, and its Practical, Political Consequences Sally Fischer 14. The Aesthetics of Childbirth Peg Brand and Paula Granger 15. The Sublimity of Gestating and Giving Birth: Toward a Feminist Conception of the Sublime Sheila Lintott