WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST: Feminism, Rhetoric, and Public Policy -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction:Women and Children First -- PART I. (Mis)representations of the Domestic Sphere: State Interventions -- 2. Homeland Security and theCo-optation of Feminist Discourse -- 3. Unsanctioned (Bedroom) Commitments:The 2000 U.S. Census Discourse aroundCohabitation and Single-Motherhood -- 4. Enemies of the State:Poor White Mothers and theDiscourse of Universal Human Rights -- PART II. Medical Discourses and Social Ills -- 5. Fixing Sex: Medical Discourse and the Management of Intersex -- 6. Social Melancholy, Shame,and Sublimation -- PART III. Subjects of Violence -- 7. Predators and Protectors:The Rhetoric of School Violence -- 8. Battered Woman Syndrome:Locating the SubjectAmidst the Advocacy -- Part IV. Mothers, Good and Bad: Marginalizing Mothers and Idealizing Children -- 9. Bad Mothers as "Brown" Mothersin Western Canadian Policy Discourse:Substance-Abusing Mothers andSexually Exploited Girls -- 10. Behind Bars or Up on a Pedestal:Motherhood and Fetal Harm -- Part V. Protesting Mothers: Politics under the Sign of Motherhood -- 11. (M)others, Biopolitics,and the Gulf War -- 12. Love and Reason in the Public Sphere:Maternalist Civic Engagementand the Dilemma of Difference -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- z.