This book provides a panoramic view of contemporary motherhood and its challenges. The authors demonstrate the compassion, empathy, and interventions that clinicians need in order to help diverse family constellations. In addition, this book tackles current problematic topics such as the tiger mom, helicopter parenting, and the over-use of technology. What a wonderful addition to the growing literature.

Ann G. Smolen, author of Mothering Without a Home: Attachment Representations and Behaviors of Homeless Mothers and Children and Six Children: Child Psychopathology and its Treatment

This exceptional volume reappraises the diverse concerns of contemporary motherhood in this brilliant offering of collected papers. The authors have offered a new perspective on mothering embedded in the unique social dimensions of our time by offering us explorations on gender identity, adoption, surrogacy, immigration, socio-cultural embedding and the evolution of an autonomous self within the reciprocity of mothering. This edited volume suggests a revision of our frameworks for defining and signifying maternity within the intrapsychic and externally driven iterations of our times.

Jaswant Guzder, MD, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University