Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 7, No 2 (2016)

Table of Contents

 Editorial Masthead
 

Contents

The Dark Heart of Motherhood in Italy : Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Film
Michelle Tarnopolsky
If the Exosuit Fits: Becoming the Alien Queen in Alien and Aliens
Charles Hicks
Excremental Subjectivity: Presence, Absence, and Feces in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document
Barbara Kutis
The Maternal Subject in the Budding Britsih Novel: Considering Daniel Defoe's Fiction
Anastasia Vahaviolos Valassis
Maternal Desires and Compulsory Motherhood: The Metaphor of "the Child of the Night" in Women's Reproductive Fantasies
Helena Vissing
"Mastomania" Breastfeeding and the Circulation of Desire in Nineteenth-Century France
Lisa Algazi Marcus
"The Mother Is a School" Muslim Mothers and their Religio-Educative Roles
Sara Hamed
Daughter of Writing Mother Writ Large with Hélène Cixous
Nané Jordan
Mothers and Sons: The Importance of Feminist Maternal Practice and the Potential for Doing Gender with Boys
Sarah Epstein
Mirror, Mirror: Adoption and Mothering in Film
Kate Greenway
Presenting the Absent: Representation of Maternal Memory, Embodiment, and Motherhood in My Art
Ruchika Wason Singh
Family Outing
Robbie Pfeufer Kahn

Folio

Editor's Notes
Jane Satterfield
Miscarriage
Joelle Biele
Apologia
Joelle Biele
To Katharine: at Fourteen Months
Joelle Biele
To Andrew: at Four Weeks
Joelle Biele
Birthday Poem
Joelle Biele
To Andrew: at Seventeen Months
Joelle Biele
To Katharine: at Three
Joelle Biele
When You Were at Children's I Wanted to Go Back to When
Joelle Biele
To Andrew: at Two
Joelle Biele
A Hat for Katie
Joelle Biele

Book Reviews

Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life
Bhave E. Maya
Complex Inequality and 'Working Mothers'
Christie Byvelds
What's Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family
Alison Quaggin Harkin
Mothers in Academia
Margaret MacDonald
Got Teens? The Doctor Moms' Guide to Sexuality, Social Media, and Other Adolescent Realities
Emily January Petersen
The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century
Joanna Radbord
21st Century Moderhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency
Tatjana Takševa

Contributor Notes

Contributor Notes