Sara Hayden is professor of communication studies at the University of Montana.D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston University.

Hayden and O'Brien Hallstein offer an engaging and rigorously-researched collection of essays exploring the complexities of contemporary maternity in the era of choice. The book overviews the history of reproductive rights, the larger discourses that enable and constrain parenting decisions, and stories of how parenting 'choices' not only impact mothers and fathers, but also family members, coworkers, purposively child-free individuals, and society at large. This edited edition brings together familiar dilemmas of work-life balance, infertility and the politics of choice, while accessing voices that are more often silenced in such discussions. In doing so, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice provides a compendium of insight that is valuable for those interested in work-life, feminism, reproduction, family communication, popular culture and social movements.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Section One: Mediated Images of ChoiceChapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist SuccessesChapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning AfterChapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public DiscoursesPart 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public SphereChapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of ChoiceChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of ChoiceChapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive ChoicesPart 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and ChoiceChapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to MotherhoodChapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose"Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: The In/Fertile, Un/Natural Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) ChoicePart 14 Section Four: Working with ChoiceChapter 15 Chapter Ten: The Invisible Politics of 'Choice' in the Workplace: Naming the Informal Parenting Support SystemChapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Cutting the Meeting Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity LeaveChapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Total Motherhood and Having it All: Reproduction, Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police OfficersPart 18 Section Five: Ongoing ChoicesChapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Purposefully Childless Good WomenChapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: What Men Say About Women: Fathers Contemplate Work Family Choices and MotherhoodChapter 21 Chapter Fifteen: Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism

Sara Hayden is professor of communication studies at the University of Montana.D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston University.

Hayden and O'Brien Hallstein offer an engaging and rigorously-researched collection of essays exploring the complexities of contemporary maternity in the era of choice. The book overviews the history of reproductive rights, the larger discourses that enable and constrain parenting decisions, and stories of how parenting 'choices' not only impact mothers and fathers, but also family members, coworkers, purposively child-free individuals, and society at large. This edited edition brings together familiar dilemmas of work-life balance, infertility and the politics of choice, while accessing voices that are more often silenced in such discussions. In doing so, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice provides a compendium of insight that is valuable for those interested in work-life, feminism, reproduction, family communication, popular culture and social movements.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Section One: Mediated Images of ChoiceChapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist SuccessesChapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning AfterChapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public DiscoursesPart 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public SphereChapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of ChoiceChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of ChoiceChapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive ChoicesPart 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and ChoiceChapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to MotherhoodChapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose"Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: The In/Fertile, Un/Natural Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) ChoicePart 14 Section Four: Working with ChoiceChapter 15 Chapter Ten: The Invisible Politics of 'Choice' in the Workplace: Naming the Informal Parenting Support SystemChapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Cutting the Meeting Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity LeaveChapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Total Motherhood and Having it All: Reproduction, Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police OfficersPart 18 Section Five: Ongoing ChoicesChapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Purposefully Childless Good WomenChapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: What Men Say About Women: Fathers Contemplate Work Family Choices and MotherhoodChapter 21 Chapter Fifteen: Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism

Sara Hayden is professor of communication studies at the University of Montana.D. Lynn O’Brien Hallstein is assistant professor of rhetoric at Boston University.

Hayden and O'Brien Hallstein offer an engaging and rigorously-researched collection of essays exploring the complexities of contemporary maternity in the era of choice. The book overviews the history of reproductive rights, the larger discourses that enable and constrain parenting decisions, and stories of how parenting 'choices' not only impact mothers and fathers, but also family members, coworkers, purposively child-free individuals, and society at large. This edited edition brings together familiar dilemmas of work-life balance, infertility and the politics of choice, while accessing voices that are more often silenced in such discussions. In doing so, Contemplating Maternity in an Era of Choice provides a compendium of insight that is valuable for those interested in work-life, feminism, reproduction, family communication, popular culture and social movements.

• Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Section One: Mediated Images of ChoiceChapter 3 Chapter One: Public Choices, Private Control: How Mediated Mom Labels Work Rhetorically to Dismantle the Politics of Choice and White Second Wave Feminist SuccessesChapter 4 Chapter Two: No Exception Post-Prevention: "Differential Biopolitics" on the Morning AfterChapter 5 Chapter Three: Politicizing Personal Choices? The Storying of Age-Related Infertility in Public DiscoursesPart 6 Section Two: Choice in the Public SphereChapter 7 Chapter Four: Reproductive Freedom Transforming Discourses of ChoiceChapter 8 Chapter Five: The Commodification of Motherhood: Surrogacy as a Matter of ChoiceChapter 9 Chapter Six: Law, Politics, and Reproductive ChoicesPart 10 Section Three: Pregnancy and ChoiceChapter 11 Chapter Seven: My Eyes Cry Without Me: Illusions of Choice in the Transition to MotherhoodChapter 12 Chapter Eight: Two Women, Two Stories: Complicating Our "Right to Choose"Chapter 13 Chapter Nine: The In/Fertile, Un/Natural Body: Ecofeminism, Dis/Embodiment, Technology, and (the Loss of) ChoicePart 14 Section Four: Working with ChoiceChapter 15 Chapter Ten: The Invisible Politics of 'Choice' in the Workplace: Naming the Informal Parenting Support SystemChapter 16 Chapter Eleven: Cutting the Meeting Short: Conflicting Narrative Choices in One Woman's Maternity LeaveChapter 17 Chapter Twelve: Total Motherhood and Having it All: Reproduction, Maternity, and Discourses of Choice among Female Police OfficersPart 18 Section Five: Ongoing ChoicesChapter 19 Chapter Thirteen: Purposefully Childless Good WomenChapter 20 Chapter Fourteen: What Men Say About Women: Fathers Contemplate Work Family Choices and MotherhoodChapter 21 Chapter Fifteen: Outlaw Mothers Raising Gentle-men: Choosing to Disrupt Hegemonic Tensions between Masculinity and Feminism