Unbecoming Mothers : The Social Production of Maternal Absence

ISBN-13: 9780789024534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str.

Diana L. Gustafson

Opis

Examines the phenomenon of unbecoming a mother - the process of coming to live apart from biological children - within the social and historical context of parenting in Australia, Canada, Britain, and the United States with critical observations from social workers, poloicymakers, and historians.

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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Diana Gustafson