Lost children and imaginary mothers in Sonya Hartnett's Of a boy - Vivienne Muller -- - Embroidering the tale : reading Luce Irigaray reading Snow White - Wendy Green -- - Psychoanalysing motherhood as transience in Okamoto Kanoko's Sushi - Kyoko Taniguchi -- - Origination and the holy mark of the motherless body : Pilate's absent navel in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon - Julie Kelso -- - Finnish women's autobiographies : responses to the call for nationalist agency - Ritva Nätkin -- - Writing Daughter : writing mother - Deborah Jordan -- - Mothers in the ancient Indian pantheon : diverse representations of goddesses in the Ṛgveda - Victoria Grace -- - The presentation of motherhood in the Law code of Manu - Tamara Ditrich -- - Media portrayals of motherhood in parenting magazines in contemporary Japan - Tomoko Shimoda -- - Sex in the seventies : 1970s maternal advice manuals on breastfeeding - Alison Bartlett -- - "The only really worthwhile role for women"? : monitoring media representations of fertility and motherhood in pronatalist Australia - Marilyn Anderson -- - Narratives about work from early mothering talk - Lisa Raith -- - Becoming a mother : narratives of homeless young mothers and wellbeing - Deborah Keys -- - Prenatal expectations : effects on the experiences of motherhood and the mothering role - Tammy Rendina and Pranee Liamputtong -- - Detecting the less than perfect : how amniocentesis is changing attitudes to mothering a child with a disability - Fiona Place -- - With love : a celebratory counter narrative of (dis?)-ability - Marie Porter -- - Listening for, and to, the voices in a mother's story : using the "listening guide" in narrative research - Eleanor Milligan and Jenny Jones