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Intersections of Mothering: Feminist Accounts book cover

1st Edition

Intersections of Mothering Feminist Accounts

Edited By Carole Zufferey, Fiona Buchanan Copyright 2020
228 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods. Mothering occurs within unequal power relations associated with the disadvantages and privileges of an unjust and patriarchal... Read more

List of contributors

  1. Introduction: theorising intersectional feminism and mothering

    2. Carole Zufferey and Fiona Buchanan

    PART I

    REPOSITIONING MOTHERHOOD

  2. ‘Out of bounds’: maternal regret and the reframing of normative motherhood

    3. Andrea O’Reilly

  3. ‘Failed’ mothers, ‘failed’ womxn: demarcating normative mothering

    4. Catriona Ida MacLeod, Tracey Feltham-King, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso and Tracy Morison

  4. ‘Woman’ and (un)partnered mother

    5. Amy Andrada

  5. Childcare as a public and common good: a Canadian perspective

    6. Maki Motapanyane, with Adian McFarlane

    PART II

    DIVERSE CONTEXTS AND RESPONSES

  6. Life’s a Mardi Gras: lesbian parenting in the context of ‘equality': '...we still have so far to go for full acceptance'

    7. Margot Rawsthorne

  7. All in the same boat? Migration and motherhood online

    8. Leah Williams Veazey

  8. Aboriginal mothering in the Australian context

    9. Amy Parkes and Carole Zufferey

  9. Mothering without a home

    10. Carole Zufferey

  10. Too little, too late: mothers, children and parental terminations

    11. Deseriee A. Kennedy

    PART III

    VIOLENCE AND MOTHERING

  11. Raising children born of war in Bosnia: reframing perspectives on mother love through a mother-daughter case study

    12. Tatjana Takševa

  12. Current mothering discourses and domestic violence: a double whammy

    13. Fiona Buchanan

  13. ‘We never quite measure up, do we?’: an intersectional approach to mothering, mental health and social inequality

    14. Nicole Moulding

  14. ‘Just another side of the coin’: support for women as mothers in the context of domestic violence

    15. Simon Lapierre

  15. Shifting practice in domestic violence: child protection workers partnering with mothers

    16. Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz, Lucy Healey and David Mandel

  16. Conclusion: beyond the intersections of mothering

Carole Zufferey and Fiona Buchanan

Biography

Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia. She has published two previous books on homelessness with Routledge: Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach (Zufferey, 2017) and Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific (Zufferey & Yu (eds), 2018), as well as The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women’s Citizenship (Franzway, Wendt, Moulding, Zufferey & Chung, Policy Press, 2019).





Fiona Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia. She has published widely in international journals and authored four book chapters. Her book Mothering in Domestic Violence: Beyond Attachment Theory was published by Routledge in 2017.

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