Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 7, No 1 (2016)

• Editorial Masthead

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Contents

• The Power of a Black Mother’s Anger: “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” as a Critique of White Abolitionist Discourse

  Deborah L. Byrd

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• Maternal Ecocriticism and the Ecology of Motherhood in Jean Toomer’s Cane

  Anissa Janine Wardi

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• Masculine Expansions of Othermothering in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, Jazz, and Beloved

  Naomi Mercer

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• Disruptive Speech: A Discursive Analysis of Single Mother Memoirs and the Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality

  Emily R. M. Lind

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• We Need to Talk about Patriarchal Motherhood: Essentialization, Naturalization and Idealization in Lionel Shriver’s We Need to Talk about Kevin

  Andrea O'Reilly

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• Lessons in Life on the Verge of Death: Spiritual Mothering in Ai Laṛkī by Hindi Author Krishna Sobti

  Florence Pasche Guignard

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• “This Is How to Make a Good Medicine to Throw Away a Child Before It Even Becomes a Child”: The Maternal Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” and the Politics of Nature and Knowing in the Caribbean

  Rachel O'Donnell

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• Othermothering and Othermothers in the Harry Potter Series

  Aurélie Lacassagne

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• Contemporary Australian Motherhood Memoir as Personal, Creative, and Political Narrative

  Lynn Garlick

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• Poetry as Memoir: Toi Derricotte’s Natural Birth and Redefining Motherhood

  Nicole L. Willey

• The Hierarchy of Motherhood in Adoption: Literary Narratives of Kinship, Maternal Desire, and Precarity

  Kate Greenway

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Folio

• Editor's Notes

  Jane Satterfield

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• Chicken-Hearted

  Jennifer Givhan

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• The Polar Bear

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Marriage Interpreted through Animal Science

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Ghost Girl in the Recovery Room

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Reabsorption Elegy

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Jeremiah Growing

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Prayer

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Madhouse of Spirits

  Jennifer Givhan

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• I've Carried an Elephant

  Jennifer Givhan

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• Bloom

  Jennifer Givhan

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Book Reviews

• What We Hold in Our Hands

  Judy Battaglia

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• The Goodbye Year: Wisdom and Culinary Therapy to Survive Your Child’s Senior Year of High School (and Reclaim the You of You)

  Maya E. Bhave

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• Motherload: Making It All Better in Insecure Times

  Pat Breton

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• Performing Motherhood: Artistic, Activist, and Everyday Enactments

  Rachel Epp Buller

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• Making Modern Mothers

  Patty Douglas

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• Black Motherhood(s): Contours, Contexts, and Considerations

  Talia Esnard

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• Got Teens? The Doctor Moms’ Guide to Sexuality, Social Media and Other Adolescent Realities

  Nancy Simpson Greenwood

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• The Gift in the Heart of Language: The Maternal Source of Meaning

  Nané Jordan

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• Memoralizing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother’s Day

  Lisa Lynn

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• The Good Mother Myth

  Margaret MacDonald

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• Mothers of Bedford

  Naomi M. McPherson

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• Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations about Men, Mothers, and Mothering

  Naomi R. Mercer

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• Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

  Aidan Moir

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• Blended: Writers on the Stepfamily Experience

  Shelley M. Park

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• Mad Mothers, Bad Mothers, and What a “Good” Mother Would Do: The Ethics of Ambivalence

  Helena Vissing

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Contributor Notes

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