Motherhood power and oppression (Women's Press, 2005)
Papers originally presented at the Australian International Academic Conference on Motherhood held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland in 2001. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references
Introduction - Andrea O'Reilly & Marie Porter -- - The kindest cut? the Caesarean section as turning point, Australia 1880-1990 - Lisa Featherstone -- - Narrating breasts: constructions of contemporary motherhood(s) in women's breastfeeding stories - Susanne Gannon & Babette Müller-Rockstroh -- - Scandalous practices and political performances: breastfeeding in the city - Alison Bartlett -- - "Pax Materna" or Mothers at war with the empire? ... - Karin Ikas -- - Mothering and stress discourses: ... - Erika Horwitz & Bonita C. Long -- - A lesser woman? fictional representations of the childless woman - Enza Gandolfo -- - (Mis)conceptions: the paradox of maternal power and loss in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye & Paradise - -- - Human and divine mothers in Hinduism - Tamara Ditrich -- - Resistance narratives from mothers of married daughters in Singapore - Hing Ai Yun -- - Survival narratives of Ethiopian-Jewish mothers and daughters in Israel - Ruby Newman -- - Down Under power? Australian mothering experiences ... - Marie Porter -- - Mothers at home: oppressed or oppressors or victims of false dichotomies? - Elizabeth Reid Boyd -- - Mothers at the margins: ... - Patricia Short -- - Naming maternal alienation - Anne Morris -- - Women of courage: the non-custodial mother - Julie Thacker -- - Abandoning mothers and their children - Anita Pavlovic, Audrey Mullender & Rosemary Aris -- - When Eve left the garden: a modern tale about mothers who leave their families - Petra Büskens -- - Conclusion: reflections on motherhood - Patricia Short