| Mother Without Child |
| Preface |
| One— A Sketch in Progress: Introducing the Mother without Child |
| Two— Not a Synthetic Maternity: Jane Rule's Fiction |
| Three— Claiming the Monstrosity in Alice Walker's Meridian |
| Four— What If Your Mother Never Meant to? The Novels of Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris |
| Five— Mothers Yesterday and Mothers Tomorrow, but Never Mothers Today: Woman on the Edge of Time and the Handmaid's Tale |
| Six— Fay Weldon's Mad Dolls |
| Epilogue— Feminism Is [Not] a Luxury |
| Notes |
| Index |