1. Mothering Others: Caregiving as Spectrum and Spectacle in the Early Modern Period, Naomi J. Miller. Part I: Conception and Lactation. 2. Mirrors of Language, Mirrors of Self: The Conceptualization of Artistic Identity in Gaspara Stampa and Sofonisba Anguissola, Judith Rose. 3. Midwiving Virility in Early Modern England, Caroline Bicks.
4. To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola's Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, Naomi Yavneh. 5. "But Blood Whitened": Nursing Mothers and Others in Early Modern Britain, Rachel Trubowitz. Part II: Nurture and Instruction. 6. Language and "Mothers' Milk": Maternal Roles and the Nurturing Body in Early Modern Spanish Texts, Emilie L. Bergmann.
7. Motherhood and Protestant Polemics: Stillbirth in Hans von Rute's Abgotterei (1531), Glenn Ehrstine. 8. The Virgin's Voice: Representations of Mary in Seventeenth-Century Italian Song, Claire Fontijn. 9. "His open side our book": Meditation and Education in Elizabeth Grymeston's Miscelanea Meditations Memoratives, Edith Snook. Part III: Domestic Production. 10.
Negativizing Nurture and Demonizing Domesticity: The Witch Construt in Early Modern Germany, Nancy Hayes. 11. The Difficult Birth of the Good Mother: Donneau de Visé's L'Embarras de Godard, ou l'Accouchée, Deborah Steinberger. 12. "Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds": Conflicting Identities of Early Modern English Women, Mary Thomas Crane. 13. Maternal Textualities, Susan Frye. Part IV: Social Authority.
14. "My Mother Musicke": Music and Early Modern Fantasties of Embodiment, Linda Phyllis Austern. 15. Marian Devotion and Maternal Authority in Seventeenth-Century England, Frances E. Dolan. 16. Mother Love: Clichés and Amazons in Early Modern England, Kathryn Schwarz. 17.
Native Mothers, Natuve Others: La Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacajawea, Kari Boyd McBride. Part V: Morality. 18. London's Mourning Garment: Maternity, Mourning and Royal Succession, Patricia Phillippy. 19. Early Modern Medea: Representations of Child Murder in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England, Susan C. Staub. 20.
"I fear there will be a worse come in his place": Surrogate Parents and Shakespeare's Richard III, Heather Dubrow.