Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

Life Choices, Identities and Methods
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6562-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 161 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives.
This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking state, media, religious beliefs and broader society are reflected in their identities and individual life choices. Considering trust, rapport, reflexivity and self-care, this collection advances methodological practice in the study of mothers, carers and childless women’s lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nurse, Lyudmila

Moran, Lisa

Sidiropulu-Janku, Katerina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Amini, Elham

Coles, Laetitia

Cooke, Emma

Cronin, Joan

Crosse, Rosemary

Gajek, Katarzyna

Chawla, Jasneek

Lukalo, Fibian

Malacrida, Claudia

Millar, Michelle

Obrovská, Jana

Reimer, Daniela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Moran, Lisa
Head of Department and Senior Lecturer at South East Technological University (SETU).

Nurse, Lyudmila
Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director at Oxford XXI think tank.

Lyudmila Nurse is 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).
Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku is Senior Researcher in the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.