Moms Gone Mad

Publication Date: October 2012
Editor: Gina Wong

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October 2012
240 pages $34.95
978-0-9866671-7-6

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Preliminary Table of Contents

•  Introduction, Reformation of Motherhood and Madness: Matroreform—Gina Wong

• Mothers, Madness, and the Labour of Feminist Practice: Responding to Women in the Perinatal Period-- Jules Smith and Marina Morrow

• The Space Between: Mothering in the Context of Contradiction? -- Joanne Minaker

• “The First Rule Is That a Mother Should Govern Her Own Feelings”: Modern Child-Rearing Advice and the Discipline of Maternal Emotions-- Roblyn Rawlins

• Creating a Space for Mothers Whose Children Have Died by Suicide-- Donna Johnson and Helen Levine

• Blaming No ‘Body’: Motherhood and Disordered Eating—Gina Wong and Shelly Russell-Mayhew

• Single Mothers, Stereotypes, and the Insanity of Raising a Child on Your Own—Ellen Hauser

• Outlaw(ing) Motherhood: A Theory and Politic of Maternal Empowerment for the 21st Century (reprinted)—Andrea O’Reilly

• The Persistence and Destructiveness of Mother-Blame within Psychological Theory-- Regina Edmonds

• Postpartum Depression: Culture as Dominate Risk Factor—Gina Wong, Karine Bordua, and Caroline Sandhurst

• Fractured Motherhood-- Alison Watts

• (Im)Balancing Act: Caregiving, Depression, and Stress while Mothering Children with Special Needs-- Jennifer Silverman

• Postpartum Psychosis: A Mother of Madness—Gina Wong and Teresa Twomey

• Daughters of Depression: Life Inside the Bell Jar-- Nancy Gerber

• Misplaced Blame: Maternal Depression, Mother-Child Interaction and Attachment—Nicole Letourneau and Gerald Giesbrecht

• Envious Mothers, Beautiful, High-Spirited Daughters: The First Step Towards Women’s Inhumanity to Women (revised and reprinted)-- Phyllis Chesler

• Culture Representations of Childlessness: Stories of Motherhood Resistance—Grace Bosibori Nyamongo

• Mocking Mom: Joke or Hate Speech (revised and reprinted)--Paula Caplan

• Call Me Crazy (reprinted play)—Paula Caplan

• The Killing of a Woman: An Organized Crime—Naomi Binder Wall

• The Mother/Child Papers Revisited (revised and reprinted)-- Alicia Ostriker