Introduction / Andrea O'Reilly
Pt. 1. Motherhood as institution : patriarchal power and maternal outrage
1. Supreme Court of Canada and what it means to be "of woman born" / Diana Ginn
2. Of party-state born : motherhood, reproductive politics, and the Chinese nation-state / Sarah E. Stevens
3. Murderous mothers : Adrienne Rich's Of woman born and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Emily Jeremiah
Pt. 2. Mothering as experience : empowerment and resistance
4. "We have mama but no papa" : motherhood in women-centered societies / Maria-Barbara Watson-Franke
5. Mother as transformer : strategic symbols of matrilineage recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots / Dannabang Kuwabong
6. Of woman (but not man or the nuclear family) born : motherhood outside institutionalized heterosexuality / Kate McCullough
7. Feminist mothers : successfully negotiating the tension between motherhood as "institution" and "experience" / Fiona Joy Green
8. Immortality and morality in contemporary reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone myth / Karin Voth Harman
9. Mothering against motherhood and the possibility of empowered maternity for mothers and their children / Andrea O'Reilly
10. broken shovel : looking back from postmaternity at co-parenting / Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Pt. 3. Narrating maternity : writing as a mother
11. Adrienne Rich's "clearing in the imagination" : Of woman born as literary criticism / D'Arcy Randall
12. "sense of drift" : Adrienne Rich's emergence from mother to poet / Jeannette E. Riley
13. Beginning with "I" : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born / Ann Keniston.
