Introduction: Mothering and Feminism: Essential Motherhood and the Dilemma of Difference -- Ch. 1. Feminism and Individualism: Identity and Difference, Ideology and Rearticulation -- Ch. 2. Mothering and the Emergence of Feminism: Challenging and Recuperating Individualism -- Ch. 3. Mothering and Difference Feminism: The Problem of Embodiment -- Ch. 4. The Body as Situation: Implications for Mothering -- Ch. 5. Maternal Thinking: Practice and Standpoint, Experience and Narrative -- Ch. 6. Embodiment and Discourse: Positioning Maternal Subjectivity in Language -- Ch. 7. Mothering and Psychoanalysis: The Persistence of the Dilemma of Difference -- Ch. 8. Mothering and Women's Experience: The Desires of Feminist Theory -- Conclusion: The Impossibility of Motherhood: A Paradoxical Politics of Mothering
