We Are Animals On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood

We Are Animals ………………………………………………… 4

BabyCenter: An Essay on Place ………………………………… 19

On Contemplating a Second Child ……………………………… 34

Unintended……………………………………………………… 44

A Political Pregnancy …………………………………………… 49

Birth (Un)Medicalized: A Case Study……………………………. 65

A Cost Accounting of Birth …………..…………………………. 83

To Hatch Intimacy from Despair………………………………… 95

Birthwork in the Bible Belt……………………………………….. 110

On the Silence of Regret ………………………………………….. 129

On Breast Pumps and Bovines ……………………………………. 139

The Mother-Infant Dyad …………………………………………. 158

On Race and Motherhood in America……………………………. 176

Animals on the Eve of Extinction………………………………… 187

Additional Thoughts on Control…………………………………… 198

Message for the Animal Mother………………………………… 213