Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-179) and index.
A series of windows -- "Mum's" the word : "coming out" as pregnant at work -- (Ad)dressing pregnant bodies : clothing, fashion, subjectivities, and spatialities -- Pregnant and disabled : "body troubles"? -- A pornography of birth : crossing moral boundaries -- At home with birth -- "Queer breastfeeding" : (im)proper spaces of lactation -- "Bad" mothers : (re)presentations of lack -- Clubmom.com : constructing maternal identities in cyberspace -- Conclusion: The contradictory spaces of mothering -- Appendix: Research methods