Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods

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Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

Life Choices, Identities and Methods

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Edited by Lyudmila Nurse, University of Oxford, Lisa Moran, South East Technological University, Ireland, Kateřina Sidiropulu-Janků, Fachhochschule Kärnten, Austria

Publisher:: Bristol University Press
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781447365648
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447365648

Subjects:: Sociology: General Interest, Sociology

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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.

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Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

Life Choices, Identities and Methods

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors
pp v-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-x

Foreword
pp xi-xi

Preface
pp xii-xiv

Introduction Biographical approaches to mothering: identities and lived realities
pp 1-17

1 - Becoming and being a Polish mother: narratives on the motherhood experience
pp 18-40

2 - ‘A good mother is a good mother and a good wife’: gender politics and mothering practice among older Iranian Muslim women
pp 41-60

3 - Exploration of mothering and shifting identities in Kenya
pp 61-81

4 - Biographies of Roma mothering in contemporary Czechia: exploring tapestries of multi-ethnic gendered identity in a marginalised social position
pp 82-102

5 - Identities and life choices of mothers in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in England
pp 103-120

6 - Giving voice to Irish mothers experiencing separation and divorce
pp 121-139

7 - Ideal, good enough and failed motherhood: how disabled Canadian mothers manage in hostile circumstances
pp 140-157

8 - Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies
pp 158-193

9 - Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering: biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers
pp 194-215

10 - Non-mothers: identities, ambiguity, biography making and life choices
pp 216-232

Conclusion Exploring mothering in future biographical research: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and new research agendas
pp 233-245

Index
pp 246-252

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