ContentsPreface Section I: Introduction Woman-Defined Motherhood Section II: Mothers and Daughters I Was in Hawaii The Gold Taloned Mirrors I Hope I'm Not Like My Mother Daughters Discover Their Mothers Through Biographies and Genograms: Educational and Clinical Parallels Mourning the Myth of Motherhood: Reclaiming Our Mothers' Legacies Section III: Mother-Blaming Making Mother-Blaming Invisible: The Emperor's New Clothes Mother-Hatred and Mother-Blaming: What Electra Did to Clytemnestra Mother-Blaming and Clinical Theory Old Women as Mother Figures Section IV: Diversity Caught Between Two Worlds: The Impact of a Child on a Lesbian Couple's Relationship The Myth of the Wicked Stepmother Feminist Considerations of Intercountry Adoptions No Accident: The Voices of Voluntarily Childless Women--An Essay on the Social Construction of Fertility Choices Establishing the First Stages of Early Reciprocal Interactions Between Mothers and Their Autistic Children Section V: Oppression Mothering the Biracial Child: Bridging the Gaps Between African-American and White Parenting Styles Lesbian Parents: Claiming Our Visibility Sarah and the Women's Movement: The Experience of Infertility Sturdy Bridges: The Role of African-American Mothers in the Socialization of African-American Children Section VI: Research Motherhood and Sex-Role Development he Social Construction of Fertility Choices Establishing the First Stages of Early Reciprocal Interactions Between Mothers and Their Autistic Children Section V: Oppression Mothering the Biracial Child: Bridging the Gaps Between African-American and White Parenting Styles Lesbian Parents: Claiming Our Visibility Sarah and the Women's Movement: The Experience of Infertility Sturdy Bridges: The Role of African-American Mothers in the Socialization of African-American Children Section VI: Research Motherhood and Sex-Role Development.