Unbecoming Mothers : The Social Production of Maternal Absence

ISBN-13: 9780789024527 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str.

Diana L. Gustafson

Opis

Social scientists and human service practitioners explore maternal absence within the social and historical context of parenting in Canada, the US, Australia, and Britain. Among their topics are women separated from their babies lost to adoption, lone mothers and the practice of child rescue in 1901-30, and perspectives of substance-using women and

Spis treści

• About the Editor
  
• Contributors
  
• Foreword (Sharon Abbey)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• Chapter 1. Framing the Discussion (Diana L. Gustafson)
  
• PART I: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE INSIDE LOOKING OUT
  
• Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Maternal Absence (Diana L. Gustafson)
  
• The Good Mother/Bad Mother Binary
  
• The Binary of Becoming/Unbecoming Mothers
  
• Defensive Acts of Resistance
  
• Concluding Thoughts
  
• Chapter 3. Abject Mothers: Women Separated from Their Babies Lost to Adoption (Patricia D. Farrar)
  
• Adoption and Relinquishment
  
• Reading Kristeva
  
• Adoption As Abjection: The Unnameable, the Unspeakable
  
• Reflecting on Abjection
  
• Chapter 4. Clarifying Choice: Identity, Trauma, and Motherhood (Linda L. Anderson)
  
• Clarifying Choice: Cynthia’s Story
  
• Reflections on Identity, Motherhood, and Trauma
  
• Chapter 5. Sandy’s Story: Re-Storying the Self (Lekkie Hopkins)
  
• Sandy’s Seminar Presentation
  
• Finding a Voice: Giving Life to Her Story, and a Story to Her Life
  
• Reflections on the Re-Storying Process
  
• Gentle Even With Garbage (Si Transken)
  
• PART II: PERSPECTIVES FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
  
• Chapter 6. “Forsaking Their Children”: Distance, Community, and Unbecoming Quaker Mothers, 1650-1700 (Susanna Calkins)
  
• Early Modern Motherhood
  
• The Paradox of Quaker Motherhood
  
• The Paradox Resolved: Quaker Woman As Communal Mother
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 7. Unnatural Mothers: Lone Mothers and the Practice of Child Rescue, 1901-1930 (Robert Adamoski)
  
• Chapter 8. Missing Mothers in a Mother-Centered World: Adolescent Girls Growing Up in Kinship Care (Deborah Connolly Youngblood)
  
• Missing Mothers
  
• The Adolescent Code of Silence
  
• Mothers Who Are Missed
  
• Naturalizing Social Policy
  
• Conclusion
  
• Chapter 9. Looking Promising: Contradictions and Challenges for Young Mothers in Care (Marilyn Callahan, Deborah Rutman, Susan Strega, and Lena Dominelli)
  
• The Research Methodology
  
• The Findings: Looking Promising
  
• Looking Promising: What Young Women Thought
  
• Looking Promising: What Social Workers Thought
  
• Looking Promising: A Beginning Theory
  
• Maintaining the Cycle: Policy Observations
  
• Contradictions and Obstacles in Breaking the Cycle
  
• PART III: COMBINING SITUATED KNOWLEDGES OF MATERNAL ABSENCE
  
• Chapter 10. Leaving to Grow / Inspiration to Grow / Leaving Inspiration (Gill Wright Miller)
  
• Prologue
  
• Leaving Inspiration: The Act of Being Contained by the Expectations of Mothering
  
• Inspiration to Grow: The Act of Using Dance-Making As a Tool for Sharing
  
• Leaving to Grow: The Act of Differentiating Mothering from Being a Mother
  
• Epilogue
  
• Chapter 11. Perspectives of Substance-Using Women and Human Service Practitioners: Reflections from the Margins (Deborah Rutman, Barbara Field, Suzanne Jackson, Audrey Lunquist, and Marilyn Callahan)
  
• Substance Abuse, Pregnancy, and Mothering
  
• Research Process
  
• Findings
  
• Discussion: Directions from Women and Human Service Practitioners
  
• Index
  
• Reference Notes Included
  

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