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Reimagining stepmother : a feminist analysis of step(m)otherings / Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sosnowska-Buxton, Patrycja, author.
- Series:
- Sociology of children and families series.
- Sociology of children and families
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stepmothers--Great Britain.
- Stepmothers.
- Stepfamilies--Great Britain.
- Stepfamilies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 183 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Based on interviews with British stepmothers, this book uses a feminist sociological lens to reimagine their roles and practices. Combining firsthand accounts, it explores stepfamily dynamics and how stepmothers navigate them, offering new insights into gendered and social structures in contemporary stepfamilies.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Reimagining Stepmother: A Feminist Analysis of Step(m)otherings
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall …'
- My step(m)othering
- Researching stepmothers
- Book outline
- 2 Theorizing Stepmothers
- The invisible stepmother
- The wicked stepmother
- The natural stepmother
- The idealized biological mother
- The biological nuclear family bias
- Gaps in research
- Finding my position
- 3 Stepmothers and Stepfamilies in European Histories and Family Law(s)
- Introduction
- What's in the name: stepmothers and stepfamilies from the Middle Ages to contemporary Europe
- Legally speaking: stepmother in past and present European family laws
- Conclusion
- 4 Reimagining Stepmothers, Stepmotherhoods and Stepmotherings
- Reimagining stepmothers: identities, transgressions and stepmaternal power(lessness)
- Vicky
- Fran
- Amanda
- Stepmothering in complex residency and legal status arrangements
- Suzy
- Irene
- Monica
- Steprelationships as a multifocal process in flux
- Jane
- Emma
- Gill
- 5 Stepmothers' Kinwork in/for Wider and Multigenerational Stepfamily
- Invisible kinwork: biological/adoptive fathers and children
- The first meeting
- Preparing for the role of stepmother
- Handling conflicts
- Different planets
- Keeping the door open
- Not taking sides
- Stepmothers' biological families' importance for stepfamilies
- Biological parents who built bridges
- The biological mothers who were stepmothers
- Stepmothers' in-law families as 'lynchpins' of step/.families
- 6 Unorthodox Ways of Doing Stepfamily
- 'Communication breakdown' in dealing with their stepchildren's biological/.adoptive mothers
- Diana.
- Stepmothers and biological mothers making their relationships work
- Nina
- Donna
- Exclusion of parents-in-law
- Dawn
- Alison
- 7 Conclusion: Stepmothers Reimagined
- Socio-historical context of stepmothering in patriarchal structures
- Step(m)otherings
- Reimagining stepmother through a feminist lens
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 6
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2025).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-3703-3
- 1-5292-3702-5
- OCLC:
- 1519122839
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