| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| 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.-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director of Oxford XXI think tank and Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. Lisa Moran is Head of Department and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Care and Early Childhood, South East Technological University (SETU). Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků is Senior Researcher in the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motherhood.
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maternity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family.
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Motherhood
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Society & culture: general.
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Family and Relationships.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nurse, Lyudmila, editor
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Moran, Lisa, 1982- editor.
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Sidiropulu-Janků, Kateřina, 1977- editor
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| ISBN |
144736564X |
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9781447365631 |
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1447365631 |
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9781447365648 |
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