Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Images -- Prologue: A Patriot for Me -- Pre-Figuring the Motherland -- The Things that Define Us -- From Practice to Theory -- 1. Past History and Deaths Foretold: A Map of Memory -- Ideal Homes -- A Home is Not a Home Without a Pet -- A Dog's Life -- 2. (He)Art History or a Death in the Family: The Late 80s -- Families and Other Animals -- So Sorry For Your Loss -- 3. The Sins of the Fathers: Mother and Land Revisited in the 1990s -- Burning Books -- A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words -- All at Sea -- 4. An Interesting Condition: The Abortion Pastels -- Christmas by Any Other Name -- Infallible Fallacies -- Life, Death and Russian Roulette -- Look at Me Enjoying Myself -- The Image as Problem Child -- Watching Him Watching Her: Everything Depends on the Eye of the Beholder -- A Target of Indifference -- Child Brides -- The Mother's Dilemma -- The Counter-Purification of Categories -- The Wages of Sin -- 5. Brave New Worlds: The Birthing of Nations in First Mass in Brazil -- Unexpected Visitors -- Little Strangers -- Goodbye and Thanks for All the Fish -- 6. I Am Coming to Your Kingdom, Prince Horrendous: Scary Stories for Baby, Perfect Stranger and Me -- It's Fantastic -- Prince? Frog? Or Worse? -- Sweet Dreams, Scary Nightmares: Fairy Tales and Nursery Rhymes -- Why Are You Glaring at Me? -- In Theory Anyone Can Be a Fairy -- Freud &amp -- Daughters: A Family Concern -- Revolution in the Nursery -- Women Telling Tales -- Stay by my Cradle till Morning is Nigh: The Nursery Rhymes -- What's It All About? -- Black Sheep, Strange Creatures and Dangerous Rogues -- One Elizabeth, Two Marys and Assorted Royals -- Beautiful Princesses, Evil Stepmothers and Wicked Witches: Who is Dead Now? -- Women Against the Canon: Who is Cannon Fodder Now?.

Bad Wolves, Beastly Beasts and Bluebeard: They Had it Coming, M'Lud -- Size Does Matter: Angry Jane, Gothic Bertha -- Dearest Satan: The Lady with a Cloven Hoof -- Lady, May I Kiss Your Hand? In�es de Castro -- 7. Paula and the Madonna: Who's That Girl? -- (Un)Like a Virgin -- Just a Girl -- Where's God Gone? -- Is He Dead or Just Resting? -- His Mother's Little Boy -- A Mother's Work Is Never Done -- Making His Mother Cry -- Where Is She Going Now? -- 8. Epilogue Let Me Count the Ways I Love You -- Appendix AA Dama P�e de Cabra (The Lady with a Cloven Hoof) -- First Canticle -- Second Canticle -- Third Canticle -- Appendix B'Fascina�c�ao' ('Enchantment') -- Works Cited -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- E-figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Index.

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