June 2013
250 pages $34.95
978-1-927335-16-1
Demeter Press
Email: info@demeterpress.org
Table of Contents
Introduction by the Editors: Creating the Collection
Section 1: The Art of Motherhood
Chapter 1: Yelizaveta Renfro, “How to Write the Motherhood Memoir: Writing Guides for Mothers”
Chapter 2: Melissa Shields Jenkins, “A Long Private Letter”: Motherhood as Textual Event in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell.”
Chapter 3: Deesha Philyaw, “Letter to a Young Black Mama on Writing Motherhood Memoir”
Chapter 4: Rachel Epp Buller, “Visualizing Motherhood”
Chapter 5: Lori Greenstone, “Liminal Ekphrasis: Mediating Motherhood with a Shield”
Section 2: What the Other Books Don’t Tell Us
Chapter 6: Pamela Douglas, “Milkmother Memoir”
Chapter 7: Justine Dymond, “‘Where’s the funeral?’: Maternal Silences in Memoirs of Postpartum Depression”
Chapter 8: Rachel Robertson, “Lost and Found: Intimacy and Distance in Three Motherhood Memoirs about Autistic Children”
Chapter 9: Kathleen L. Fowler, “’Just another mother who has lost her child’: Memoirs of Caregiving and Loss”
Section 3: Mothers without Borders
Chapter 10: Tara McDonald Johnson, “Transcending the Mind/Body Split to Save My Own Life”
Chapter 11: Lisa Federer, “We Are Family: Creating Lesbian Motherhood through Online Community”
Chapter 12: Kimberle S. Lopez, “Speaking for (M)Others: The Representation of Birth Mothers in Memoirs of International Adoption”
Chapter 13: Nicole Willey, “In Search of Our Mother’s Memoirs: Form and Function in African American Motherhood in Letters”
