Radical Reclamations: Reviving Jewish Birth Practices
Denise Handlarski 7

The Anticarceral Promise of Deregulating Motherhood and
Decriminalizing Substance Use
Janet Garcia-Hallett and Popy Begum 19

Letter from a Mother to a Daughter to a Mother: Caste, Patriarchy,
and Intergenerational Trauma of Narcissistic Abuse
Akanksha Misra 37

“Sisters in the Struggle”: Can Postmodern Dance Make Space
for Dancer Parents?
Johanna Kirk 51

Examining Self and Finding a Healing Path: Internalized Racism
and Intersectionality of a Thai Mother-Scholar
Tipsuda Chaomuangkhong 65

The Biopolitical Corporeality of the White Female Body: Exploring
the Experiences of Women Descended from Central and Eastern
Europe Residing in the United States
Margarita Levine 77

Being an Academic Mother during a Pandemic: The Roles of Home
and Work on Mental Health
Lauren McClain and Natasha Gerstenschlager 95

Three Mothers in Academia: Looking Inwards, Taking Stock,
and Moving Forward
Pooja Bhatia Narang, Arwa AlShehri, and Gloria Park 121

Black Mothering in the Diaspora: Empowerment in the Caribbean
Cradle and Resistance in the Canadian Crucible
Jacqui Getfield 139

Strategies for Resistance: A Study on Black Mothering as Practices
of Disruption for the Schooling of Black children
Janelle Brady 155

Journeys of Healing and Self-Actualization: An Autoethnographic
Examination of First-Generation Mother-of-Color Professionals
in Higher Education
Zeina Otaky Ramirez, Carmen M. Dones, and Cindy N. Phu 177

Who Cooks What, How, and for Whom? Gender, Racial, Ethnic,
and Class Politics of Food in Asian Global Households
Aya Kitamura 197

A Balancing Act: Unlearning and Embracing Chinese Immigrant
Mothering
Catherine Ma 213

Notes on Contributors 227