Biographical research and the meanings of mothering : life choices, identities and methods / edited by Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Nurse, Lyudmila, editor.
• Moran, Lisa, 1982- editor.
• Sidiropulu-Janků, Kateřina, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Motherhood.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2023.

Summary:

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives. Considering self-care, rapport, trust and self-reflection, the collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women's lives.

Contents:

• Introduction: Biographical Approaches to Mothering: Identities and Lived Realities / Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků
• Becoming and Being a Polish Mother: Narratives on the Motherhood Experience / Katarzyna Gajek
• "A Good Mother is a Good Mother and a Good Wife": Gender Politics, and Mothering Practice Among Older Iranian Muslim Women / Elham Amini
• Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities in Kenya / Fibian Lukalo
• Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia: Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position / Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků and Jana Obrovská
• Identities and Life Choices of Mothers in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in England / Lyudmila Nurse
• Giving Voice to Irish Mothers Experiencing Separation and Divorce / Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar
• Ideal, Good Enough, and Failed Motherhood: How Disabled Canadian Mothers Manage in Hostile Circumstances / Claudia Malacrida
• Confronting Meanings of Motherhood in Neoliberal Australia: Six Crystallized Case Studies / Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke and Jasneek Chawla
• Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering. Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers / Daniela Reimer
• Non-Mothers: Identities, Ambiguity, Biography Making and Life Choices / Joan Cronin
• Conclusion: Exploring Mothering in Future Biographical Research: Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and New Research Agendas / Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků.

Notes:

• Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Jan 2024).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 1-4473-6565-8
• 1-4473-6564-X

OCLC:

1395949800