Mothers and daughters : complicated connections across cultures / edited by Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, Helen M. Sterk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-303) and index.

Birthing : daughters' transitions to motherhood / Helen M. Sterk and Rita L. Feikema -- Reconnections for life enhancement : daughters after mother loss / Deborah A. O'Neil and Susan Schick Case -- Embodying resistance, enforcing obedience : mother-daughter relationships in recent Indo-Anglian fiction / Rajender Kaur -- Mothers and daughters : glimpses through time / Alice H. Deakins -- Two of me : mothers and daughters in connection / Michelle Miller-Day -- Mother care/daughter care : the bridge that is my back : Rebecca Bryant Lockridge and Sarah Lockridge -- The 80hoo generation : rethinking their mother-daughter relationships during childhood in China / Xue Yongling ; with Mei Zhong -- Voices from the Andes : Jaqi mothers and daughters / M.J. Hardman and Shumaya Martha Bautista Hardman -- On the transition from childhood to womanhood : constructing coming of age rituals in U.S. American culture / Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Alyssa C. Ballard-Reisch, and Jackie Silviera-Sater -- "Pecked to death by ducks" : managing dialectal tensions in the mother-adolescent daughter relationship / Barbara Penington -- Negotiation of attachment/separation tension in relationships between mothers and daughters who are pursuing careers in academia / Marjorie A. Jaasma, Frances Jeffries, and Keith Nainby -- An untold story : mothers' and daughters' connections through food / Miriam Meyers -- Constructing the grandmother-granddaughter relationship through communication : a review of the relevant literature / Lynn H. Turner -- Mothers and daughters in the global village / Alice H. Deakins.