Wendy Holloway is Reader in Gender Relations at the University of Leeds. Brid Featherstone is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bradford

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Brid Featherstone; Chapter 2 The production and purposes of maternal ambivalence, Rozsika Parker; Chapter 3 Fathers’ ambivalence (too), Stephen Frosh; Chapter 4 The maternal bed, Wendy Hollway; Chapter 5 Mothers and daughters within a changing world, Sheila Ernst; Chapter 6 Susie Orbach talking to Wendy Hollway about mothers, parenting, gender development and therapy; Chapter 7 The heaven and hell of mothering, Ros Coward; Chapter 8 In the company of women, Paddy Maynes, Joanna Best; Chapter 9 Part ing is such sweet sorrow, Caroline Owens; Chapter 10 Group-analytic psychotherapy, Sheila Ernst; Chapter 11 ‘I wouldn’t do your job!’, Brid Featherstone;

Wendy Holloway is Reader in Gender Relations at the University of Leeds. Brid Featherstone is a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bradford

• Chapter 1 Introduction, Brid Featherstone; Chapter 2 The production and purposes of maternal ambivalence, Rozsika Parker; Chapter 3 Fathers’ ambivalence (too), Stephen Frosh; Chapter 4 The maternal bed, Wendy Hollway; Chapter 5 Mothers and daughters within a changing world, Sheila Ernst; Chapter 6 Susie Orbach talking to Wendy Hollway about mothers, parenting, gender development and therapy; Chapter 7 The heaven and hell of mothering, Ros Coward; Chapter 8 In the company of women, Paddy Maynes, Joanna Best; Chapter 9 Part ing is such sweet sorrow, Caroline Owens; Chapter 10 Group-analytic psychotherapy, Sheila Ernst; Chapter 11 ‘I wouldn’t do your job!’, Brid Featherstone;