Introduction / Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Díaz
I. Defining Maternity
1. 'Services for Which I Expect to be Compensated': Mothering as a Salaried Labor in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon / Debra Blumenthal
2. Noble Maternity in Castile, 1400-1650 / Grace E. Coolidge
3. Maternity in the Portraits of Spanish Queens: Mariana of Habsburg / Mercedes Llorente
4. The Stains of the Mother: Indian Mothers and Mestizo Children in Early Colonial Peru / Rocío Quispe Agnoli
II. Becoming Pregnant and Giving Birth
5. "Urinating on Lettuce and Throwing Your Hands Up": Infertility in Early Modern Spain / Carolina Alarcón
6. Motherhood and Gender: When the Queen Has Only Daughters
The Case of Mariana Victoria de Bourbon (1718-81) / Vanda Anastácio
7. 'Para retener la criatura': Miscarriage in Early Modern Spain / Emily Kuffner
8. Maternal Bodies and Fertile Letters: The Politics of Motherhood Networking in Estefania de Requesens' Correspondence / Montserrat Pérez-Toribio
III. Daily Living Motherhood
9. Motherhood and the Early Modern Woman Artist / Catherine Hall-van den Elsen
10. Casa de Niños Expósitos: The Substitute Mother in Colonial Mexico / Yolopattli Hernández-Torres
11. Cruel or Prudent Mothers? Troubled Relationships, Disobedient Daughters, and Social Risk (Eighteenth-Century Barcelona) / Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
Afterword / Emilie L. Bergmann
List of Contributors (in alphabetical order)
Index