TABLE OF CONTENTS

ARTICLES

Theorizing and Historicizing Mothering’s Many Labours
Sarah Knott

Part I: Physical Labour, Mothering, Othermothering

The Driveress and the Nurse: Childcare, Working Children and Other Work Under Caribbean Slavery
Diana Paton

Mothering Solidarity: Infant-Feeding, Vulnerability and Poverty in West Africa Since the Seventeenth Century
Christine Whyte

Becoming the ‘Natural’ Mother in Britain and North America: Power, Emotions and the Labour of Childbirth Between 1947 and 1967 border=
Joanna Bourke

Part II: Mothering, Family and Household

Mothering Illegitimate Children in Late Eighteenth-Century England
Kate Gibson

Mothering and Labour in the Slaveholding Households of the Antebellum American South
R J Knight

The Value of Motherhood: Understanding Motherhood from Maternal Absence in Victorian Britain
Emma Griffin

Mothering in the Archives: Care and the Creation of Family Papers and Photographs in Twentieth-Century Southern England
Jane Hamlett

Part III: Emotional Work, Organizational Labour

Worry Work: The Supernatural Labours of Living and Dead Mothers in Irish Folklore
Clodagh Tait

Last Acts of Mothering: Nuptial Counselling in Late Colonial French Soudan (Mali)
Devon Golaszewski

The Mother Within: Intergenerational Influences Upon Australian Matrescence Since 1945 border=
Carla Pascoe Leahy

Career, Family and Emotional Work: Graduate Mothers in 1960s Britain
Helen McCarthy

‘How is She Going to Manage with the Children?’ Organizational Labour, Working and Mothering in Britain, c. 1960–1990
Eve Worth; Laura Paterson