Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse

Mothers Who Deliver brings together essays that focus on mothering as an intelligent practice, deliberately reinvented and rearticulated by mothers themselves. The contributors to this watershed volume focus on a variety of subjects, from mothers in children's picture books and mothers writing blogs to global maternal activism and mothers raising gay sons. Distinguishing itself from much writing about motherhood today, Mothers Who Deliver focuses on forward-looking arguments and new forms of knowledge about the practice of mothering instead of remaining solely within the realm of critique. Together, the essays create a compelling argument about the possibilities of empowered mothering.

"This volume moves beyond a critique of patriarchal motherhood to imagine and implement new and more empowering theories and modes of mothering. With its focus on mothering as agency and in its attention to twenty-first-century motherhood issues, it is a distinct and original collection."---Andrea O'Reilly, editor of Feminist Mothering

Jocelyn Fenton Stitt is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Pegeen Reichert Powell is Assistant Professor of English at Columbia College Chicago.