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

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Elham Amini (Liverpool University) Laetitia Coles (The University of Queensland)

Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

Life Choices, Identities and Methods

Elham Amini (Liverpool University), Laetitia Coles (The University of Queensland), Emma Cooke (The University of Queensland) , Joan Cronin (University College Cork)

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Policy Press
14 September 2023

Research methods: general; Age groups: children; Sociology: family & relationships

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.

Contributions by: Elham Amini (Liverpool University), Laetitia Coles (The University of Queensland), Emma Cooke (The University of Queensland), Joan Cronin (University College Cork), Rosemary Crosse (University of Galway)
Imprint: Policy Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781447365624
ISBN 10: 1447365623
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. The Emergence of a Pandemic, Biographical Disruption and the Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities - 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 Obrovska, 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- Inter-disciplinarity, Trans-disciplinarity and New Research Agendas - Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku

Lyudmila Nurse is Research Director of Oxford XXI think tank and an 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), Waterford, Ireland. Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku is Senior Researcher in the Institute for Applied Research on Ageing, Carinthia University of Applied Sciences.