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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Mothers, Motherhood, and Historians | |
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| Social Construction of Motherhood | |
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| The Cultural Significance of Breast-Feeding and Infant Care in Early Modern England and America | |
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| The Republican Vision of Mary Palmer Tyler | |
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| Mother's Love: The Construction of an Emotion in Nineteenth-Century America | |
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| The New Motherhood and the New View of Wet Nurses, 1780-1865 | |
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| Constructing Mothers: Scientific Motherhood in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
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| Confessions of Loss: Maternal Grief in True Story, 1920-1985 | |
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| "I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till | |
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| Motherhood and Reproduction | |
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| "The Living Mother of a Living Child": Midwifery and Mortality in Post-Revolutionary New England | |
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| "Sally Has Been Sick": Pregnancy and Family Limitation among Virginia Gentry Women, 1780-1830 | |
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| Motherhood Denied: Women and Infertility in Historical Perspective | |
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| Birthing and Anesthesia: The Debate over Twilight Sleep | |
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| African American Women and Abortion, 1800-1970 | |
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| The Alternative Birth Movement in the United States: History and Current Status | |
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| Social and Cultural Settings | |
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| Mothering under Slavery in the Antebellum South | |
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| "Sweet Good Mothers and Young Women Out in the World": The Roles of Irish American Women in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Worcester, Massachusetts | |
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| Jewish Mothers and Immigrant Daughters: Positive and Negative Role Models | |
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| Social, Historical, Political, and Cultural Settings of Japanese American Motherhood, 1940-1990: The Tradition of Amae, Gambare, and Gaman in the American Midwest | |
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| Reconstructing Motherhood: The La Leche League in Postwar America | |
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| Diversity in Women's Liberation Ideology: How a Black and a White Group of the 1960s Viewed Motherhood | |
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| Public Policy | |
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| Voluntary Motherhood: The Beginnings of Feminist Birth Control Ideas in the United States | |
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| "When the Birds Have Flown the Nest, the Mother-Work May Still Go On": Sentimental Maternalism and the National Congress of Mothers | |
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| "Go after the Women": Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929 | |
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| Modernizing the Rural Mother: Gender, Class, and Health Reform in Illinois, 1910-1930 | |
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| Regulating Industrial Homework: The Triumph of "Sacred Motherhood" | |
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| "Employable Mothers" and "Suitable Work": A Reevaluation of Welfare and Wage Earning for Women in the Twentieth-Century United States | |
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| Bibliography: Selected Further Readings | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |