Chapter 1 Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all

Chapter 2 One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin’s “Tiger Bites”

Chapter 3 “their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between”: Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese

Chapter 4 Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness

Chapter 5 Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud’s Happiness Has a Slippery Tail

Chapter 6 From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein’s Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn

Chapter 7 The (M)other’s Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women

Chapter 8 Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti

Chapter 9 A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature