Journal of the Motherhood Initiative Vol 7, No 2 (2016)

•  Editorial Masthead

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Contents

• The Dark Heart of Motherhood in Italy : Maternal Ambivalence in Contemporary Italian Film

  Michelle Tarnopolsky

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• If the Exosuit Fits: Becoming the Alien Queen in Alien and Aliens

  Charles Hicks

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• Excremental Subjectivity: Presence, Absence, and Feces in Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document

  Barbara Kutis

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• The Maternal Subject in the Budding Britsih Novel: Considering Daniel Defoe's Fiction

  Anastasia Vahaviolos Valassis

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• Maternal Desires and Compulsory Motherhood: The Metaphor of "the Child of the Night" in Women's Reproductive Fantasies

  Helena Vissing

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• "Mastomania" Breastfeeding and the Circulation of Desire in Nineteenth-Century France

  Lisa Algazi Marcus

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• "The Mother Is a School" Muslim Mothers and their Religio-Educative Roles

  Sara Hamed

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• Daughter of Writing Mother Writ Large with Hélène Cixous

  Nané Jordan

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• Mothers and Sons: The Importance of Feminist Maternal Practice and the Potential for Doing Gender with Boys

  Sarah Epstein

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• Mirror, Mirror: Adoption and Mothering in Film

  Kate Greenway

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• Presenting the Absent: Representation of Maternal Memory, Embodiment, and Motherhood in My Art

  Ruchika Wason Singh

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• Family Outing

  Robbie Pfeufer Kahn

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Folio

• Editor's Notes

  Jane Satterfield

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• Miscarriage

  Joelle Biele

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• Apologia

  Joelle Biele

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• To Katharine: at Fourteen Months

  Joelle Biele

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• To Andrew: at Four Weeks

  Joelle Biele

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• Birthday Poem

  Joelle Biele

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• To Andrew: at Seventeen Months

  Joelle Biele

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• To Katharine: at Three

  Joelle Biele

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• When You Were at Children's I Wanted to Go Back to When

  Joelle Biele

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• To Andrew: at Two

  Joelle Biele

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• A Hat for Katie

  Joelle Biele

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Book Reviews

• Balancing the Big Stuff: Finding Happiness in Work, Family, and Life

  Bhave E. Maya

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• Complex Inequality and 'Working Mothers'

  Christie Byvelds

• What's Cooking, Mom? Narratives about Food and Family

  Alison Quaggin Harkin

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• Mothers in Academia

  Margaret MacDonald

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• Got Teens? The Doctor Moms' Guide to Sexuality, Social Media, and Other Adolescent Realities

  Emily January Petersen

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• The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century

  Joanna Radbord

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• 21st Century Moderhood: Experience, Identity, Policy, Agency

  Tatjana Takševa

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Contributor Notes

• Contributor Notes

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