I would like to suggest that work on mothering include literature on infertility, ART and adoptive families.    If the bibliography includes work such as Card's on a critique of motherhood, it is useful to consider a discussion of issues around the construction of the desire to mother, alternative ways of mothering, men who mother, etc.  There isn't much in philosophy, and surprisingly little feminist work.  Here is a tiny sample of relevant books (the annotations are not mine, except for comments in square brackets):

Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting by Elizabeth Bartholet (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.) A provocative look at how and why genetic connection is promoted to (in the author's view) the detriment of infertility patients and adoptive relationships stigmatized except when they are quasi or partial adoptions. A powerful argument for revamping the system and society's view of adoption.

The Adoption Life Cycle: The Children and their Families through the Years by Elinor B. Rosenberg (New York: The Free Press, 1992). Psychiatry professor and adoptive parent Rosenberg presents a view of the challenges of successfully integrating adoption and the changes it continuously brings into the lives of those whom it touches--adoptees, birthparents, adoptive parents.

Melosh, Barbara. Strangers and Kin: The American Way of Adoption. This book is really a cultural history of the U.S. via the issue of adoption. An adoptive mother herself, Melosh explores the 1920s' preoccupation with eugenics, the 1950s' sexual repression, the 1970s' racial optimism, and the 1990s' turn to open adoption and birth family reunions.

I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to Their Children, edited by Sara Dorow (St Paul: Yeong & Yeong Book Co, 1998) a poignant anthology of letters from Korean birthparents.

Birthmothers: Women Who Have Relinquished Babies for Adoption Tell Their Stories by Merry Bloch Jones (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 1993) A carefully explored collection of interviews with birthmothers, this book looks for commonalities of experience and is honest without being angry or hopeless.

Secret Thoughts of An Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff (Kansas City: Andrews & McNeel, 1997) Personal observations about the process of adopting in an open, transracial adoption. [I don't actually like this book much, but it offers one perspective.]

Savage, Dan. The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to go Get Pregnant. My favorite so far! Dan Savage, a sex columnist and professional gay guy, tells a witty tale of his and his boyfriend's adoption adventure, from why he wanted to have a baby (so he could get fat), to his fears of kidnapping at his brother-in-law's fundamentalist wedding reception. His testament to open adoption is exceptionally persuasive, and the relationship he and his boyfriend develop with their son's birthmother is one of the book's most charming themes.

Thompson, Becky. Mothering Without a Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage. Thompson tells a compelling story of finding a nine year-old boy on her doorstep one day, with a request from his mother that she become his guardian. This memoir of her first year as the instant white, lesbian mother of an African American child is a thoughtful exploration of issues of sexuality, race and family in contemporary U.S. culture.

Thompson, Julie M. Mommy Queerest. A combination of cultural theory and legal history, Thompson's book reads like an (interesting) dissertation (and it probably was). She charts a history of lesbian parenting and examines the contradictions inherent within popular understanding of sexuality and family.

Jane Lazarre, Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons. [An excellent book.]

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On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Samantha Brennan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
This is Amy Mullin's bibliography:

Feminist Theoretical Work on Pregnancy and Mothering

The following bibliography is divided into two sections. Both contain
feminist theoretical work on pregnancy and mothering, in which philosophical
work is heavily represented. First listed are published or forthcoming works
by participants in the 2009 Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering conference.
Next listed are published works recommended by conference participants.

1. Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering Conference, Oregon, 2009 Conference
Participants¹ Published and Forthcoming Work

Adams, Sarah La Chance. ³Becoming with Child: Pregnancy as Provocation to
Authenticity,² New Perspectives on Sartre. Co-editors Adrian Mirvish &
Adrian van den Hoven.  Forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars Press.

Adams, Sarah LaChance. ³Maternal Thinking (Ruddick),² Encyclopedia of
Motherhood. Editor Andrea O¹Reilly, Forthcoming from SAGE Publications.

Adams, Sarah LaChance. ³Philosophy and Motherhood,² Encyclopedia of
Motherhood. Editor Andrea O¹Reilly, Forthcoming from SAGE Publications.

Adams, Sarah LaChance  2009. ³The Pregnable Subject: Maternity and Levinas¹
Relevance to Feminism,² Phenomenology 2008, vol. V, Selected Essays from
North America, ed. Michael Barber, Lester Embree, and Thomas J. Nenon, Post
criptum O.P.O. Series, Bucharet: Zeta Books.

Bailey, Alison 2007. ³The Reproduction of Whiteness: Race and the Regulation
of the Gendered Body,² Hypatia Special Issue, eds. Alison Bailey and
Jacqueline N. Zita, 22:2.

Bailey, Alison 1997. ³Mothers, Birthgivers and Peacemakers: A Critical
Reflection on Maternal Peace Politics.² In Perspectives on Power and
Domination, eds. Lawrence Bove and Laura Duhan Kaplan, New York: Rodopi.

Bailey, Alison 1996. ³Mothering, Diversity and Peace: Comments on Sara
Ruddick's Feminist Maternal Peace Politics." In Bringing Peace Home:
Feminism, Violence and Nature, eds. Karen J. Warren and Duane L. Cady.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Bailey, Alison 1994. ³Mothering, Diversity and Peace Politics: A Critical
Analysis of Sara Ruddick's Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace,"
Hypatia 9:2,188-198.

Fentiman, Linda 2009. ³New Markets in Mothers¹ Milk:  How
Breastfeeding and Human Milk Have Become Commodities,² Nevada Law Journal,
10(1).

Guenther, L. 2008. OEBeing-from-Others: Reading Heidegger after Cavarero.¹
Hypatia 23:4.

Guenther, L. 2006.  The Gift of the Other: Levinas and the Politics of
Reproduction. Albany, NY, SUNY Press.

Guenther, L. 2006.  OE¹Like a Maternal Body¹: Levinas and the Motherhood of
Moses,¹ Hypatia 21:1, Special Issue on Maternal Bodies, 119-136.

Guenther, L. 2005.  OELucky Burden: Beauvoir and the Ethical Temporality of
Birth¹, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, 9:2, 177-194.

Guenther, L. 2005.  'Unborn Mothers: The old rhetoric of New Reproductive
Technologies', Radical Philosophy, 130, 2-6.
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Keller, Jean 2009. ³Rethinking Ruddick on OEAdoptive¹ Mothering.² In Sara
Ruddick¹s Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Practice,Politics.  Edited by
Andrea O¹Reilly.  Toronto: Demeter Press, forthcoming.

Lundquist, Caroline 2008. ³Being Torn: Toward a Phenomenology of Unwanted
Pregnancy,² Hypatia 23(3): 136-155.

Minaker, Joanne C. ³Law Mothering,² Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Editor
Andrea O¹Reilly, Forthcoming from Sage Publications. Contact:
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Minaker, Joanne C. ³Public Policy and Mothers,² Encyclopedia of Motherhood.
Editor Andrea O¹Reilly, Forthcoming from Sage Publications. Contact:
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Moloney, Sharon 2009. ³Birth as a Spiritual Initiation: Australian women¹s
experiences of transformation².  Australian Religion Studies Review, Special
Supplement, 22 (2).  IN PRESS.


Moloney, Sharon 2008. ³Mothers and Daughters at Menarche: An Indigenous
inspired quiet revolution². Journal of the Association for Research on
Mothering, 10 (2).


Moloney, Sharon 2007. ³Dancing with the Wind: a methodological approach to
researching women¹s spirituality around menstruation and birth².
International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 6 (1).

Moloney, Sharon 2006. ³The Spirituality of Childbirth².  Birth Issues, 15
(2).


Moloney, Sharon 2008. ³The Test².  In Anthology: Unborn Beauty: Celebrating
Pregnancy and Parenthood, Rochelle Manners (Ed). Wombat  Books.


Moloney, Sharon 2006. ³Dismantling the Fear of Birth².  Natural Parenting,
No. 16, Spring.


Moloney, Sharon 1998. ³Breastfeeding as Fertility Suppressant: How reliable
is it?²  MIDIRS Midwifery Digest, 8 (3).

Mullin, Amy 2002. ³Pregnant Bodies, Pregnant Minds² in Feminist Theory 3
(1): 27-46.

Mullin, Amy 2004. ³Pregnancy², Sexuality: The Essential Glossary, ed. Jo
Eadie, London: Arnold Press, 170.

Mullin, Amy 2005. ³Like a Mother¹:  Paid Mother-work Performed in Private
Spaces² in Motherhood and Space, eds. Caroline Wiedemer and Sarah Hardy (New
York:  Palgrave MacMillan, 203-220.

Mullin, Amy 2005. Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare:  Ethics, Experience
and Reproductive Labor, Cambridge University Press.

Mullin, Amy 2005. ³Trust, Social Norms and Motherhood² in Journal of Social
Philosophy 36 (3):316-330.

Mullin, Amy 2006. ³Parents and Children: An Alternative to Unconditional and
Selfless Love² in Hypatia 21(1):181-200.

Mullin, Amy 2007. ³Children, Autonomy and Care² in Journal of Social
Philosophy 38(4):536-553.

Mullin, Amy 2007. ³Children, Caregivers, and Friends:  Models of Care² in
Taking Responsibility for Children, eds. Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle,
Wilfrid Laurier Press, 47-71.

Mullin, Amy 2007. ³Giving as well as receiving:  Love, Children and Parents²
in Symposium:  Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy 2007 12(2).

Mullin, Amy 2009.  ³Paid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust² Forthcoming in
Maternal Thinking:  Philosophy, Politics, Practice, ed. Andrea O¹Reilly,
Demeter Press, 2009.

Mullin, Amy 2010. ³Filial Responsibilities of Dependent Children²
Forthcoming in Hypatia Winter 25(1).

O¹Leary, J. (2009). Never a simple journey: Pregnancy following loss.
Bereavement Care, 28 (2), 12-17.

O¹Leary, J. & Parker, L. (2009). Parenting before birth: A manual for
professionals working with parents prenatally. C. Thorwick (Ed.). O¹Leary
self published. Minneapolis, MN

O¹Leary, J, & Thorwick, C. (2008). Maternal-Paternal representation of
pregnancy and attachment to the unborn child during pregnancy following
loss. Attachment. 2(3), 292-320.

O¹Leary, J (2007) Pregnancy and Infant Loss: Supporting parents and their
children. Zero to Three, 27(6), 42-49.

O¹Leary, J. & Thorwick, C. (2006) When pregnancy follows a loss: Preparing
for the birth of you new baby. Self published booklet for parents.

O¹Leary, J., Gazanio, C.  & Thorwick, C (2006) Born after Loss: The
invisible child in adulthood. Journal of Pre and Perinatal Psychology and
Health, 21(1), 3-23.

O¹Leary, J. & Thorwick, C. (2006) Fathering perspective during pregnancy
post perinatal loss. Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecologic, and Neonatal
Nursing., 35(1),78-86.

O¹Leary, J. (2005). The baby who follows the loss of a sibling: Special
considerations in the postpartum period. International Journal of Childbirth
Education, 20(4), 28-30.

O¹Leary, J. (2005). The trauma of ultrasound during a pregnancy following
peirnatal loss. Journal of Loss and Trauma. 10,183-204.

O¹Leary, J. (2004) Grief and its impact on prenatal attachment in the
subsequent pregnancy. Archives of Women¹s Mental Health. 7 (1) 1-15.

O¹Leary, JM (2001). Death and dying during pregnancy: Perinatal Hospice,
National Council on Family Relations Report, 46(1), 6-7

O'Leary, J.  (2000) Pregnancy After a Loss:  How perinatal social workers
can help.  Autumn Forum, 2094), 1-6, Newsletter for perinatal social
workers.

O¹Leary, J. & Parker, L. (1999).The subsequent pregnancy. RTS Counselor
Connection, 14(1), 1-2.

O'Leary, J., & Gaziano, C.  (1999) "The Role of Childhood Memory Scores in
Parenting in Pregnancy and Early Postpartum," Journal of Prenatal and
Perinatal Psychology and Health, 13(3-4, Spring/Summer.

O¹Leary, J., Parker, L. & Thorwick, C.(1998) After Loss: Parenting in the
Next Pregnancy--A Manual for Professionals Working with Families in
Pregnancy Following Loss. Minneapolis: Abbott Northwestern Hospital.

Gaziano, C. & O¹Leary, J.(1998) ³Childbirth and Infant Development Knowledge
Gaps in Interpersonal Settings²; Journal of Health Communications, 3, pp.
15-37.

O¹Leary J. & Thorwick, C. (1997) ³Impact of Pregnancy Loss on Subsequent
Pregnancy²  Chapter in J.R. Woods, Jr. & J.L. Esposito Woods (Eds.), Loss
During Pregnancy or in the Newborn Period (pp. 431-45). Pitman, NJ:Janetti
Publications.

O'Leary, J. (1997) "Making Sense of Parenting When Your Baby Dies", Healing
Ministry, Vol. 4  #5, 3-5, Sept.-Oct.   Weston, MA:  Prime National
Publishing Corp.

O¹Leary, J.  (1997) ³Prenatal Relationships²; Prenatal Connection, pp. 6-7;
Fall.

O¹Leary, J. & Thorwick, C. (1994) ³On the Interface with Perinatal
Medicine², Association for Pre- and  Perinatal Psychology and Health
Newsletter, Spring.

O¹Leary, J. & Thorwick, C. (1993) ³Parenting During Pregnancy: The Infant as
the Vehicle for Intervention in High Risk Pregnancy², International Journal
of  Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Medicine;  5(3), 303-310, December.

O¹Leary, J. & Thorwick, C. (1993) ³Pregnancy Following Perinatal Loss: An
Intervention Program for Parents, The Signal (Newsletter of the World
Association for Infant Mental Health), Vol. 1, #4, October-December.

O¹Leary, J.; (1992) ³The Parenting Process in the Prenatal Period: A
Developmental Theory²; Pre and Perinatal Psychology Journal, Vol. 7 #2, 7-9,
Winter.

O¹Leary, J. (1992) ³Pregnancy After Loss,² Perinatal Connection:  Partners
in Prenatal Care for Minnesota Moms,3(2), Summer, 1992.

Parker, L. & O¹Leary, J. (1989) ³Impact of Prior Prenatal Loss Upon
Subsequent Pregnancy: The Function of the Childbirth Class², International
Journal of Childbirth Educators, August.

O'Leary, J. & Parker, L.  Labor and Birth:  Rebuilding Trust; video
production, co-produced, written and directed with medial services for
Allina, 1999.

O'Leary, J. & Parker, L.; Parenting Your Baby Before Birth [A Relaxation
Experience for Parents During Pregnancy] (1998); compact disc, co-executive
producer; Minneapolis, MN: Available through [log in to unmask].

Soliday, E. (2009, May). Medical patients¹ rights reflected in women¹s
reported childbirth experiences. Paper presented at the Philosophy of
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood Conference, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
Contact: [log in to unmask]

Villarmea, Stella. 2009. "Rethinking the Origin:  Birth and Human Value", in
Jinfen Yan y David Schrader (eds.): Creating a Global Dialogue on Value
Inquiry. Papers from the XXII World Congress of Philosophy. Lewiston, Nueva
York, Edwin Mellen Press.

Villarmea, Stella. 2005. "Good, Freedom, and Happiness: A Kantian Approach
to Autonomy and Cooperation", in Elisabeth de Sotelo (ed.) New Women of
Spain: Social Political Studies of Feminist Thought. Münster, Lit Verlag,
pp. 244-256.

Villarmea, Stella. 1999. "The Provocation of  E. Levinas for feminism", The
European Journal of Women's Studies, 6(3): 291-304.

Welsh, Talia. 2008. ³The Developing Body: A Reading of Merleau-Ponty¹s
Conception of Women in the Sorbonne Lectures.² In Intertwinings:
Interdisciplinary Encounters with Merleau-Ponty (pp. 45-59). Gail Weiss
(Ed.) Albany: State University of New York Press.
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2. Additional Feminist Theoretical Work on Pregnancy and Motherhood
Recommended by Conference Participants

Annas, J. 1986. Pregnant women as fetal containers. Hastings Center Report
16(6):13-4.

Bigwood, Carol 1991. ³Renaturalizing the Body (With the Help of
Merleau-Ponty).²  Hypatia 6(3): 54-73.

Brody, Donna 2001. ³Levinas¹s Maternal Method from OETime and the Other¹
Through Otherwise Than Being: No Woman¹s Land?² Feminist Interpretations of
Emmanuel Levinas. Ed. Tina Chanter. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania
State University Press, 53-77.

Card, Claudia. 1996. ³Against Marriage and Motherhood.² Hypatia 11(3): 1-23.

Collins, Patricia Hill 1994. ³Shifting the Center: Race, Class, and Feminist
Theorizing about Motherhood². In Donna Bassin, Margaret Honey, and Meryle
Mahrer Kaplan eds., Representations of Motherhood. New Haven: Yale
University Press.


Cudd, Ann E 1990.  ³Enforced Pregnancy, Rape, and the Image of Women.²
Philosophical Studies 60(1): 47 ­ 59.

DiQuinzio, Patricia. 1999.  The Impossibility of Motherhood:  Feminism,
Individualism and the Problem of Mothering. New York:  Routledge.

Held, Virginia 1993.  Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society and
Politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Hillyer, Barbara 1993. Feminism and Disability. Oklahoma City: University of
Oklahoma Press.

Katz, Claire Elise. ³The Significance of Childhood.² International Studies
in Philosophy.
34.4 (2002): 77-101.

Kittay, Eva Feder. 1999. Love¹s labor:  Essays on women, equality, and
dependency. New York:  Routledge.

Kittay, Eva Feder 1999. ³OENot My Way Sesha, Your Way, Slowly¹: OEMaternal
Thinking¹ in the Raising of a Child with Profound Intellectual
Disabilities.² Mother Troubles. Eds. Julia Hanigsberg & Sara Ruddick.
Boston: Beacon Press, 3-27.

Kristeva, Julia 2002. ³Stabat Mater.² The Portable Kristeva. Ed. Kelly
Oliver. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

Lauritzen, Paul 1989. ³A Feminist Ethic and the New Romanticism<Mothering as
a Model of Moral Relations² Hypatia 4.3: 29-44.

Layne, Linda. 2003. Motherhood Lost:  A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss
in America. New York:  Routledge.

Leonard, Victoria Wynn 1996. ³Mothering as Practice.² Caregiving: Reading in
Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Politics. Eds. Suzanne Gordon, Patricia
Benner, & Nel Noddings. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press,124-140.

Lindemann Nelson, Hilde and James 1989. ³Cutting Motherhood in Two: Some
Suspicions Concerning Surrogacy.² Hypatia 4(3): 85-94.
Martin, Emily. 1987. The Woman in the Body. Boston: Beacon Press.

McLeod C. 2002. Self-trust and Reproductive Autonomy. Cambridge: The MIT
Press.

Meyers, Diana 2001. ³The Rush to Motherhood: Pronatalist Discourse and
Women¹s Autonomy.² Signs 26(3): 735-773.

Noddings, Nel 1984. Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral
Education. Second Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Oksala, Johanna. 2006. What is feminist phenomenology? Thinking birth
philosophically. Radical Philosophy 26 (July/August): 16-22.

Oliver, Kelly 1997. Family Values: Subjects Between Nature and Culture. New
York: Routledge.

Olkowski, Dorothea 2006. ³Only Nature is Mother to the Child.² Feminist
Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty.  Eds. Dorothea Olkowski & Gail
Weiss. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 49-70.

Overall Christine 1993. Human reproduction : principles, practices,
policies. Toronto: Oxford University Press.

Petchsky R. 1987. Fetal Images: The power of Visual Culture in the Politics
of Reproduction. Feminist Studies 12(2):263-92.

Rodemeyer, Lanei 1998.  ³Dasein Gets Pregnant.²  Philosophy Today
42(Supplement): 76 ­ 84.

Rowland R. 1992. Living Laboratories: Women and Reproductive Technologies.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Ruddick, Sara. 1995. Maternal thinking:  Toward a politics of peace.
Boston:  Beacon Press.

Sandford, Stella 2001. ³Masculine Mothers? Maternity in Levinas and Plato.²
Feminist Interpretations of Emmanuel Levinas. Ed. Tina Chanter. University
Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 180-202.

Seavilleklein V. 2009. Challenging the rhetoric of choice in prenatal
screening. Bioethics. 23(1):68-77.

Sherwin S. 1991. ³Abortion Through A Feminist Ethics Lens.² In Dialogue 30:
327-42.

Simms, Eva-Maria 2001. ³Milk and Flesh: A Phenomenological Reflection on
Infancy and Coexistence.²  Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 32(1):
22-40.

Thomas, Carol. 1997. ³The baby and the bath water: disabled women and
motherhood in social context.² In Sociology of Health & Illness 19(5):
622-643.

Thompson, Judith Jarvis 1971.  ³A Defense of Abortion.²  Philosophy and
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Trebilcot, Joyce 1983, ed. Mothering: Essays in Feminist Theory. Totowa, NJ:
Rowman & Allanheld.

Tronto, Joan C. 2002. The ³nanny² question in feminism. Hypatia 17 (7):
34-51.

Whitbeck, Caroline 1975.  ³The Maternal Instinct.² The Philosophical Forum.
6(2-3): 321-332.

Willett, Cynthia 1995. Maternal Ethics and Other Slave Moralities.  New
York:  Routledge.

Wynn, Francine 2002. ³The Early Relationship of Mother and Pre-Infant:
Merleau-Ponty and Pregnancy.² Nursing Philosophy 3: 4-14.

Young, Iris Marion 1990. ³Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation.²
In Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social
Theory, 160-174. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.


----- Original Message -----
From: Krista Sigurdson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 5:20 pm
Subject: Research on motherhood etc.
To: [log in to unmask]

> Hi Feast,
>
> Does anyone have a bibliography put together on feminist (and popular)
> writings on motherhood, parenting, breastfeeding, etc.
>
> Thanks, Krista
>
> --
> Krista Sigurdson
> Sociology Doctoral Program
> University of California, San Francisco

Samantha Brennan
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Department of Philosophy
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