Reconciling art and mothering / edited by Rachel Epp Buller.

Burlington, VT : Ashgate Publishing Company, [2012]

xx, 293 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-287) and index.

Modern motherhood and female sociability in the art of Marguerite Gérard / Heather Belnap Jensen -- Of milk and homeland : breastfeeding, immigrant mothers, and eugenics in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries / Deborah J. Wilk -- Chana Orloff : sculpting as a modern Jewish mother / Paula J. Birnbaum -- Departures and returns : figuring the mother's body in the art of Betye and Alison Saar / Jessica Dallow -- Making the black maternal visible : Renée Cox's family portraits / Andrea Liss -- Lesbian, pervert, mother : Catherine Opie's photographic transgressions / Erin Barnett -- Participatory practices between mother and daughter : the art of Amanda Heng and Shia Yih Ying / Cecily Cheo -- "I've got it from my mother" : exploring the figure of the mother in contemporary Polish art / Elżbieta Korolczuk -- Jess Dobkin : mom, dyke, frog / Charles Reeve -- An introduction to the artists' section : maternal themes in contemporary art / Rachel Epp Buller -- Postpartum blues : the figure/ ground / Maríangeles Soto-Díaz -- Art about motherhood : the last taboo? : Reflections of an American artist in Paris / Diana Quinby -- Maternal timelines / Sandra Matthews -- Mothering twentysomethings / Gail Rebhan -- The act with no image : creating a feminist aesthetic of childbirth / Jessica D. Clements -- Finding the balance : a dialogue between three artists / Jackie Skrzynski -- Spoilt milk : ambivalence and the language of casein / Denise Ferris -- Expressing the end : a visual breastfeeding chronicle / Rachel Epp Buller -- Reproduction : an apologia of the female nude / Maru Ituarte -- In search of mother / Erika Swinson -- Resume / Joan Linder -- Masks and motherhood : field notes from the kitchen table, a living inquiry / Nané Ariadne Jordan -- Exquisite tension : the annotated artist mother / Elizabeth MacKenzie -- Childhoods / Natasha Christopher -- Reflections on art, motherhood, and maternal ambivalence / Myrel Chernick.