Introduction: Navigating the cult of motherhood in the emerging public sphere
Speaking for herself: privilege and creating counterpublics. Staging motherhood: Sarah Siddons and Mary Robinson
Mother-midwife: women's work and the phenomenon of birth
Spoken for: mediated maternity and the politics of exclusion. Compulsory maternity: gender nonconformity in the military memoirs of Christian Davies and Hannah Snell
Abortive attempts: forced labor and the impossibility of motherhood in The history of Mary Prince: a West Indian slave
Spoken about: marginalized maternities
Street life: picturing mothers practicing itinerant trades
Mother Magdalen: penitential poverty and the prostitute-mother
Afterword: The twenty-first-century afterlives of Enlightenment maternity.