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Intro -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. In Black and White -- 2. Accounting for Lost Sons -- 3. "It's a … Penis!" -- 4. But I Am a Feminist! -- 5. Letters to My Son -- Mother Tells Me Her Dream -- 6. Sons Write Mothers in Contemporary Swedish Literature -- 7. Mamas' Boy -- 8. Our Sons -- 9. "Mom's School" by Ben -- 10. Four Decades in the Story of a Transracial Mother-Son Relationship -- 11. Role Play and Other Poems -- 12. Life Lessons from My Mother -- 13. Queering Confucius -- 14. Disability and the Price of Myths about Mothering -- Guné ci téfess (Baby on Shore) -- 15. They Don't Even Know They ARE My Sons -- 16. Parenting Cross-Culturally -- 17. Raising Men -- The Fast -- 18. A Boy Named Finn -- 19. Black Mother-Son Relationships in the Age of Ferguson -- 20. Special Needs -- Editor's Reflections -- About the Contributors.

Discusses the clash between motherhood & soldiering present since the US passed a law allowing women with dependent children to enlist in the military, using the case of Army Specialist Alexis Hutchinson to illustrate. At issue is why the US military is allowed to engage in a "morally questionable" policy of recruiting mothers or soon-to-be mothers. It is contended that this practice exists as a function of US cultural values & because the military as well as political leaders have remained silent on the subject; further, there seems to be an activist & academic blindness to the moral distinction between women & mothers. Of particular interest is why progressives & conservatives bear responsibility for the fate of military mothers as represented by Hutchinson's story. Attention is given to some of the empirical evidence indicating the impact of military service on mothers & their children, & to the tricky issue of distinguishing women service members with children from those without them. D. Edelman