Dr Rachel Epp Buller is Assistant Professor of Art at Bethel College, an independent curator and artist, and a regional coordinator of The Feminist Art Project.

Contents: Introduction, Rachel Epp Buller; Part I On Representing the Maternal Body: Critical and Theoretical Reflections: Modern motherhood and female sociability in the art of Marguerite Gérard, Heather Belknap Jensen; Of milk and homeland: breastfeeding, immigrant mothers, and eugenics in the 19th and 21st centuries, Deborah J. Wilk; Chana Orloff: sculpting as a modern Jewish mother, Paula J. Birnbaum; Departures and returns: figuring the mother's body in the art of Betye and Alison Saar, Jessica Dallow; Making the Black maternal visible: Renée Cox's family portraits, Andrea Liss; Lesbian, pervert, mother: Catherine Opie's photographic transgressions, Erin Barnett; Participatory practices between mother and daughter: the art of Amanda Heng and Shia Yih Yiing, Cecily Cheo; 'I've got it from my mother': exploring the figure of the mother in contemporary Polish art, Elzbieta Korolczuk; Jess Dobkin: mom, dyke, frog, Charles Reeve. Part II Contemporary Artist-Mothers: Statements and Negotiations: An introduction to the artists' section: maternal themes in contemporary art, Rachel Epp Buller; Post partum blues: the figure/ground, Mariángeles Soto-Díaz; Art about motherhood - the last taboo? Reflections of an American artist in Paris, Diana Quinby; Maternal timelines, Sandra Matthews; Mothering twentysomethings, Gail Rebhan; The act with no image: creating a feminist aesthetic of childbirth, Jessica D. Clements; Finding the balance: a dialogue between three artists, Jackie Skrzynski; Spoilt milk: ambivalence and the language of casein, Denise Ferris; Expressing the end: a visual breastfeeding chronicle, Rachel Epp Buller; Reproduction: an apologia of the female nude, Maru Ituarte; In search of mother, Erika Swinson; Resume, Joan Linder; Masks and motherhood: field notes from the kitchen table, a living inquiry, Nané Ariadne Jordan; Exquisite tension: the annotated artist mother, Elizabeth Mackenzie; Childhoods, Natasha Christopher; Reflections on art, motherhood, and maternal ambivalence, Myrel Chernick; Bibliography; Index.