Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction Biographical approaches to mothering: identities and lived realities
- 1 Becoming and being a Polish mother: narratives on the motherhood experience
- 2 ‘A good mother is a good mother and a good wife’: gender politics and mothering practice among older Iranian Muslim women
- 3 Exploration of mothering and shifting identities in Kenya
- 4 Biographies of Roma mothering in contemporary Czechia: exploring tapestries of multi-ethnic gendered identity in a marginalised social position
- 5 Identities and life choices of mothers in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in England
- 6 Giving voice to Irish mothers experiencing separation and divorce
- 7 Ideal, good enough and failed motherhood: how disabled Canadian mothers manage in hostile circumstances
- 8 Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies
- 9 Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering: biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers
- 10 Non-mothers: identities, ambiguity, biography making and life choices
- Conclusion Exploring mothering in future biographical research: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and new research agendas
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction Biographical approaches to mothering: identities and lived realities
- 1 Becoming and being a Polish mother: narratives on the motherhood experience
- 2 ‘A good mother is a good mother and a good wife’: gender politics and mothering practice among older Iranian Muslim women
- 3 Exploration of mothering and shifting identities in Kenya
- 4 Biographies of Roma mothering in contemporary Czechia: exploring tapestries of multi-ethnic gendered identity in a marginalised social position
- 5 Identities and life choices of mothers in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in England
- 6 Giving voice to Irish mothers experiencing separation and divorce
- 7 Ideal, good enough and failed motherhood: how disabled Canadian mothers manage in hostile circumstances
- 8 Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies
- 9 Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering: biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers
- 10 Non-mothers: identities, ambiguity, biography making and life choices
- Conclusion Exploring mothering in future biographical research: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and new research agendas
- Index
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- Biographical Research and the Meanings of MotheringLife Choices, Identities and Methods, pp. i - iiPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023