Disability and mothering: liminal spaces of embodied knowledge

1. Reproductive technologies in the disciplining of bodies

"Healthy, accomplished, and attractive": visual representations of "fitness" in egg donors / Jen Cellio

Negotiating discourses of maternal responsibility, disability, and reprogenetics: the role of experimental knowledge / Felicity Boardman

Stalking Grendel's mother: biomedicine and the disciplining of the deviant body / Terri Beth Miller

Uneasy subjects: disability, feminism, and abortion / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson

2. Refusals : contesting diagnoses and cultural scripts

"What does it matter?": a meditation on the social positioning of disability and motherhood / Samantha Walsh

Reconceiving motherhood / Kristin Lindgren

Refusing diagnosis: Mother-daughter agency in confronting psychiatric rhetoric / Abby Wilkerson

Diagnosable: mothering at the threshold of disability / Julia Miele Rodas

3. Narrativity and meaning-making : rewriting stories of mothering and disability

Mothers as storytellers / Linnéa E. Franits

Sharing stories: motherhood, autism, and culture / Rachel Robertson

Nurturing the nurturer: reflections on an experience of breastfeeding, disability, and physical trauma / Heather Kuttai

Vulnerable subjects: motherhood and disability in Nancy Mairs and Cherríe Moraga / Suzanne Bost

4. Reimagining activism : a politics of diability and mothering

From surrender to activism: the transformation of disability and mothering at Kew cottages, Australia / Corinne Manning

History examined: one women's story of disability and advocacy / Marilyn Dolmage

My mother's mental illness / Whitney Jones-Garcia

A Schizo-ly situated daughter: a mother's labor / Elizabeth Metcalf

Motherhood and activism in the dis/enabling context of war: the case of Cindy Sheehan / Abby M. Dubisar

5. Multiple identities, overlapping borders

The political is personal: Mothering at the intersection of acquired disability, gender, and race / Julie E. Maybee

"You gotta make Aztlán any way you can": Disability in Cherríe Moraga's Heroes and saints / Julie Avril Minich

Interesting postcolonial mothering and disability: a narrative of an Antiguan woman and her son / Denise Cordella Hughes-Tafen

Mothering, disability, and poverty: straddling borders, shifting boundaries, and everyday resistance / Shawn A. Cassiman

Afterword(s) / Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio.