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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 society. Social inequalities associated with gender, race, class, age, ability, sexuality, violence and nationalism intersect in the lives of women as mothers, to shape their lived experiences and perspectives on mothering. Showcasing the breadth and depth of feminist research on mothering, this book gives attention to the diversity of ways in which mothering is constructed and responded to as well as how mothering is experienced. Drawing on intersectional feminist thought, the book challenges normative visions of ‘good mothering’ and interrogates constructs of ‘bad mothering’. It brings together insights from multidisciplinary scholars who use feminist approaches in their research on mothering, to inform policy development and practice when working with women as mothers in diverse circumstances. Intersections of Mothering highlights the complexities of mothering in a contemporary world, show the benefits of considering mothering through an intersectional feminist lens, make visible lived experiences of mothers and provides challenges to dominant imaginings of and service responses to women as mothers.



    Intersections of Mothering will be essential reading for interdisciplinary scholars and students in criminology, gender and women’s studies, motherhood studies, social welfare, social work, social policy and public health policy, in addition to practitioners and policy workers that respond to women as mothers.

    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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