Everyday World- Making

Abstract

Cover -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Everyday World of Affect and Mothering -- Sisterly Conversation -- Becoming Mother, Performing Mother -- milk -- Navigating the Waters of Early Motherhood -- A Poetics of Maternal Failure -- Objects of a Maternal Haunting -- Empty Maternal -- The "Dark Side" of Mothering -- That Baby Will Cost You -- Blood, Mud, Poop, and Vomit -- Unforgivable or Outlaw Emotions? -- fail -- Blurring Boundaries, Manoeuvring Motherhood -- Anishinaabe Fasting -- "Mothering the Mother" -- Instinct, Expertise, Connection -- Families We Don't Choose -- Sisterly Conversation -- About the Contributors.