Introduction – Andrea O'Reilly

Section One: Feminist Mothering
Chapter One: Feminist mothers: Successfully negotiating the tensions between motherhood as "institution" and "experience" – Fiona Green
Chapter Two: Resistance as a site of empowerment: The journey away from maternal sacrifice – Erika Horwitz
Chapter Three: "We were conspirators, outlaws from the institution of motherhood": Mothering against motherhood and the possibility of empowered maternity for mothers and their children – Andrea O'Reilly
Chapter Four: The (male) advantage of a feminist mother – Juanita Ross Epp and Sharon Cook
Chapter Five: Telling our stories: Feminist mothers and daughters – Christina Baker
Chapter Six: From perfect housewife to fishnet stockings and not quite back again: One mother's story of leaving home – Petra Buskens

Section Two: Lesbian Mothering
Chapter Seven: Imag(in)ing the queer lesbian family – Jacqui Gabb
Chapter Eight: Our kids in the hall: Lesbian families negotiate the public school system – Rachel Epstein
Chapter Nine: Lesbian mothers and the law of custody, access, and child support – Joanna Radbord
Chapter Ten: Lesbian nonbiological mothering: Negotiating an (un)familiar existence – Dawn Comeau

Section Three: African-American Mothering
Chapter Eleven: A politics of the heart: African-American womanist thought on mothering – Andrea O'Reilly
Chapter Twelve: Black women's mothering in a historical and contemporary perspective: Understanding the past, forging the future – Erica Lawson
Chapter Thirteen: Community mothering: The relationship between mothering and the community work of black women – Arlene E. Edwards
Chapter Fourteen: "You'll become a lioness": African-American women talk about mothering – Trudelle Thomas
Chapter Fifteen: Reflections on the mutuality of mothering: Women, children, and othermothering – Njoki Nathani Wane

Section Four: Mothers and Daughters
Chapter Sixteen: Across the divide: Contemporary Anglo-American feminist theory on the mother-daughter relationship – Andrea O'Reilly
Chapter Seventeen: The global self-esteem of an African-American adolescent female and her relationship with her mother – Barbara Turnage
Chapter Eighteen: Don't blame mother: Then and now – Paula Caplan
Chapter Nineteen: Mother of mothers, daughter of daughters: Reflections on the motherline – Naomi Lowinsky
Chapter Twenty: A daughter's praise poem for her mother: Historicizing community activism and racial uplist among South African women – Dolana Mogadime

Section Five: Mothers and Sons
Chapter Twenty-One: In black and white: African-American and Anglo-American feminist perspectives on mothers and sons – Andrea O'Reilly
Chapter Twenty-Two: Bringing our boyz to men: Black men's reflections on their mothers' childrearing influences – Wanda Thomas Bernard
Chapter Twenty-Three: Swimming against the tide: Feminists' accounts of mothering sons – Alison M. Thomas
Chapter Twenty-Four: Raising relational boys – Cate Dooley and Nikki Fedele
Chapter Twenty-Five: A mom and her son: Thoughts on feminist mothering – Andrea O'Reilly