From Motherhood to Mothering: The Legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Motherhood as institution : patriarchal power and maternal outrage
1	The Supreme Court of Canada and what it means to be "of woman born"	27
2	Of party-state born : motherhood, reproductive politics, and the Chinese nation-state	45
3	Murderous mothers : Adrienne Rich's Of woman born and Toni Morrison's Beloved	59
Pt. 2	Mothering as experience : empowerment and resistance
4	"We have mama but no papa" : motherhood in women-centered societies	75
5	Mother as transformer : strategic symbols of matrilineage recuperation in Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots	89
6	Of woman (but not man or the nuclear family) born : motherhood outside institutionalized heterosexuality	103
7	Feminist mothers : successfully negotiating the tension between motherhood as "institution" and "experience"	125
8	Immortality and morality in contemporary reworkings of the Demeter/Persephone myth	137
9	Mothering against motherhood and the possibility of empowered maternity for mothers and their children	159
10	The broken shovel : looking back from postmaternity at co-parenting	175
Pt. 3	Narrating maternity : writing as a mother
11	Adrienne Rich's "clearing in the imagination" : Of woman born as literary criticism	195
12	A "sense of drift" : Adrienne Rich's emergence from mother to poet	209
13	Beginning with "I" : the legacy of Adrienne Rich's Of woman born	223