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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.
"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.