Pandemic-Intensified Motherhood: Making Sense of Increased
Mothering Pressures during COVID-19
Laura Limonic 7

“Being a Mother in the Pandemic Was Intense”: Lived Experiences
of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain and Japan
Abigail Connolly 27

Parenting during a Pandemic: Mothers and Disabled Children in
Aotearoa/New Zealand—A Hidden Minority
Gretchen A. Good, Jane Lee, and Karen McBride-Henry 45

“Falling Off a Cliff”: Mothering Disabled Children through the
Pandemic and Beyond
Genevieve Currie, Amanda Doherty Kirby, Jeanine Lebsack,
Danijela Grahovac, and Kinga Pozniak 65

Quarantine Mothering and Working at Home: How Institutions
of Higher Education Supported (or Failed to Support) Academic
Mothers
Lauren E. Brewer, Heather K. Olson Beal, Chrissy J. Cross,
Shelby J. Gull, and Lauren Burrow 83

The Stories We Tell: Narratives of Mothering and Work during the
Dual Pandemics of 2020
Nicole Dillard and Taylor Cavallo 101

Maternal Reflections on Working from Home with Children during
the Pandemic
Lisa H. Rosen, Linda J. Rubin, and Mackenzie Beckmon Sharbine 119

Childbirth Narratives in the Canton of Ticino (Switzerland):
Perceptions and Experiences of Mothers Who Gave Birth before
and during COVID-19
Laura Lazzari 135

The Pandemic and Maternal Mental Health in the Western World:
A Cross-Cultural Assessment with Refugee Mothers
Jillayna Adamson 151

Art Looking within MotherScholarhood: Art Elicitation for
Self-Reflections and Sense Making
Lauren E. Burrow, Chrissy J. Cross, and Heather K. Olson Beal 167

Drawing (Out) the Evil (M)other of the Family Court
Penny Davis 187

Mothering, Masking Up, and Sarah Blake’s Clean Air: A Maternal
Ecocritical Reading
Carolina Toscano 215

Notes on Contributors 227