Intersections of Mothering

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.

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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 is 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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Acknowledgments

Contributors

• Introduction: Theorising Intersectional Feminism and Mothering * Carole Zufferey and Fiona Buchanan* SECTION 1

RE-POSITIONING MOTHERHOOD

• '**Out of Bounds' Maternal Regret and the Reframing of Normative Motherhood * Andrea O'Reilly *

• 'Failed' Mothers, 'Failed' Womxn: Demarcating Normative Mothering * Catriona Ida MacLeod, Tracey Feltham-King, Jabulile Mary-Jane Jace Mavuso and Tracy Morison *

• 'Woman' and (Un)partnered Mother * Amy Andrada *

• Childcare as a Public and Common Good: A Canadian Perspective * Maki Motapanyane with Adian McFarlane

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SECTION 2

DIVERSE CONTEXTS AND RESPONSES

• Life's a Mardi Gras: Lesbian Parenting in the Context of 'Equality * Margot Rawsthorne *

• All in the Same Boat? Migration and Motherhood Online * Leah Williams Veazey

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• Aboriginal Mothering in the Australian context * Amy Parkes and Carole Zufferey

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• **Mothering Without a Home
  * Carole Zufferey *

• Too Little, Too Late: Mothers, Children and Parental Terminations * Deseriee A. Kennedy

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SECTION 3

VIOLENCE AND MOTHERING

• Raising Children Born of War in Bosnia: Reframing Perspectives on Mother Love Through a Mother-Daughter Case Study * Tatjana TakSeva *

• Current Mothering Discourses and Domestic Violence: A Double Whammy
  * Fiona Buchanan *

• 'We Never Quite Measure Up, Do We?' An Intersectional Approach to Mothering, Mental Health and Social Inequality * Nicole Moulding

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• 'Just Another Side of the Coin': Support for Women as Mothers in the Context of Domestic Violence * Simon Lapierre *

• Shifting Practice in Domestic Violence: Child Protection Workers Partnering with Mothers * Cathy Humphreys, Margaret Kertesz, Lucy Healey and David Mandel *

• Conclusion: Beyond the intersections of mothering
  * Carole Zufferey and Fiona Buchanan

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