Mohamed Haji Ingiriis, Help Somalia Foundation, UKOluwatosin Akinjobi, Elizade University, NigeriaAnnika A. Culver, Florida State University, USASalvador Murguia, Miyazaki International College, JapanBrett Schmoll, Bard College, USALorraine Ryan, University of Birmingham, UKHeidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, Asociación Renacer Siglo XXI, ColombiaRobert Sierakowski, University of the West Indies at Mona, JamaicaCristina Santos, Brock Univeristy, CanadaTracy Crowe Morey, Brock University, CanadaJohn Navin, Coastal Carolina University, USAFrancis Shor, Wayne State University, USA

• Prologue: Mother Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi 1. Introduction: The Shenandoah Doctrine: Sons, Soldiers, and Service to the Nation Dana Cooper 2. Mothers, Warfare, and Captivity in the Eastern Woodlands of North America, 1607-1763 John Navin 3. Sailing Sons: The Personal Consequences of Impressment Claire Phelan 4. Las Madres Guerreras: Testimonial Writing on Militant Motherhood in Latin America Tracey Crowe Morey and Cristina Santos 5. The Women's Resistence Movement in Argentina: Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo Elena Shabliy 6. Japanese Mothers and Rural Settlement in Wartime Manchukuo: Gendered Reflections of Labor and Productivity in Manshu Gurafu [Manchuria Graph], 1936-1943 Annika Culver 7. Dear Ok?san...: An Analysis of Farewell Letters from Kamikaze Pilots to their Mothers Salvador Jimenez Murguia and Benjamin A. Peters 8. Social Trauma and Motherhood in Postwar Spain Lorraine Ryan 9. Barbara Hepworth and War: Themes of Motherhood and Sacrifice in Hepworth's Madonna And Child, St. Ives Parish Church Lyrica Taylor 10. War [De]Legitimizers: Israeli Military Mothers Udi Lebel 11. Reproducing a Culture of Martyrdom: The Role of the Palestinian Mother in Discourse Construction, Transmission and Legitimization Michael Loadenthal 12. Motherhood as a Space of Political Activism: Iraqi Mothers and the Religious Narrative of Karbala Fatin Shabbar 13. Motherhood and Somali 'Civil' War: The Experiences of Anguish and Opportunities Mohamed Haji Ingiriis 14. Conclusion: Grieving U.S. MothersAnd The Political Representations Of Protest During The Iraq War And Beyond Francis Shor