1. Chapter VI: From extensive services to the read-aloud solution: Discontinuities and continuities in literacy advice in the 1970s and 1980s
    1. Table 5: Discourses and Themes in Literacy Advice to Mothers 1968–1988
    2. Domestic literacy management in the 1970s and 1980s
      1. Invisible supporters of “natural learning”
      2. Identical interests: mothers as literacy co-learners
      3. Domestic literacy work as nation-building: Mothering for a new knowledge economy
    3. Conclusion
  2. Chapter VII: bodies, brains and bake sales: literacy advice 1988–2002
    1. Table 6: Discourses and Themes in Literacy Advice to Mothers, 1988–2003
    2. Perfect literacies: Mothers as literacy models and monitors
    3. “Read while you breastfeed”: Mothering as embodied literacy practice
    4. Work your way out of poverty: Domestic literacy as family power
    5. Mothering the early brain: Literacy as nurturing baby care
    6. Conclusions
  3. Chapter VIII: Discussion
    1. Research Methods and Limitations
    2. Summary of findings
      1. What discursive formations are associated with the ‘mother-as-teacher-of literacy’?
      2. What discourse strategies are associated with the normalization of the ‘mother-as-teacher of literacy’ over time?
      3. What forms of literacy and of mothering are excluded within mothering discourses?
      4. Who benefits from mothering and literacy advice discourses?
    3. Literacy advice to mothers: Themes for further research
    4. Moving beyond mothering discourses in literacy advice
      1. Implications for literacy research and practice
      2. Critical awareness: How literacy research contributes to the reproduction of mothering discourses
      3. Attend to the situated experiences of mothering as a basis for policy making and literacy research
      4. The limits of instruction to effect social change
    5. Conclusion
  4. BIBLIOGRAPHY