1. Introduction: ‘An Exquisite Suffering’
2. Contextualizing Ambivalence: Intensive Mothering Under Neoliberalism
3. 'It Takes a Village': Resisting the Repudiation of the 'Bad' Mother
4. Embodying Ambivalence: Abjection and the Problematic Maternal Body
5. The Body in Extremis: Vocalizing Maternal Corporeality
6. Surviving Motherhood: From Maternal Ambivalence to Maternal Resilience
7. “Strange and Wild”: Towards an Aesthetics of Ambivalence.