Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, multiple book chapters, and has been published in a variety of feminist and communication journals.

• Introduction: Mothering Rhetorics 1. Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief: The Racialized Rhetorical Contexts of Maternity 2. Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal 3. #SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, Visibility, and the Exploitation of the Black Breast 4. Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability 5. Rhetorics of Unwed Motherhood and Shame 6. Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices

Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, multiple book chapters, and has been published in a variety of feminist and communication journals.

• Introduction: Mothering Rhetorics 1. Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief: The Racialized Rhetorical Contexts of Maternity 2. Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal 3. #SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, Visibility, and the Exploitation of the Black Breast 4. Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability 5. Rhetorics of Unwed Motherhood and Shame 6. Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices

Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the College of General Studies and an Affiliated Faculty of the Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University, USA. She is the author or editor of four books, multiple book chapters, and has been published in a variety of feminist and communication journals.

• Introduction: Mothering Rhetorics 1. Michelle Obama, Mom-in-Chief: The Racialized Rhetorical Contexts of Maternity 2. Fixing Food to Fix Families: Feeding Risk Discourse and the Family Meal 3. #SpoiledMilk: Blacktavists, Visibility, and the Exploitation of the Black Breast 4. Standpoints of Maternity Leave: Discourses of Temporality and Ability 5. Rhetorics of Unwed Motherhood and Shame 6. Empowering Disgust: Redefining Alternative Postpartum Placenta Practices