Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : maternal action as exchange, practice, and solidarity / Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee

Part 1. Exchange

Thinking back through our mothers : the editors in conversation / Alice Entwistle, Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee

Conversations with mother artists on the dynamics of support in India / Ruchika Wason Singh, Shobha Broota, Pooja Iranna

Homebody / Eve Dent, Zoë Gingell

Siôl Fagu : a consideration in four stories / Christine Watkins

Mom, me, and the maternal at work / Roiyah Saltus, Solange Saltus

There are other worlds : maternal knowledge beyond borders / Elena Marchevska

Part 2. Practice

Dramaturgies of support and interruption in the process of wonderwoman : the naked truth by notnow collective / Kristina Gavran

Gravida, the weight and wait of pregnancy to mothering transformation : a performance exploring traumatic memory and the energy of creation / Carrie Westwater, Aleksandra Nikolajev Jones

Motherswitch / Tracy Breathnach

Did I request thee, maker, from my minced meat to mould me infant? : or manifesto for a maternal aesth-ethics, proposal for “provocation and practice” / Freya Verlander

Maternal poetics of care in plastic spaces / Prophecy Sun

Claiming spaces : aprons of power – places of power performances / Rachel Fallon

Part 3. Solidarity

Who does she think she is? Kate Middleton?! : leaky escapes in un-classy maternal performance / Jodie Hawkes

Physical and symbolic loss : composite monologues of women parenting while incarcerated / Helena D. Lewis

Performing and transforming the maternal : a reflexive inquiry using digital storytelling for mutual learning / Leah Salter

Weaving enfleshed citizenship (m)otherwise / Sara C. Motta

Dispatches from the front : midwifery in a pandemic / Laura Godfrey-Isaacs

Maternal performance as peacebuilding / Jennifer Verson

Conclusion : on sustaining mothering performance / Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee