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Front Cover\nBiographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering: Life Choices, Identities and Methods\nCopyright information\nTable of Contents\nNotes on contributors\nAcknowledgements\nForeword\nPreface\nIntroduction Biographical approaches to mothering: identities and lived realities\n Exploring the multidimensionality of mothering\n Complexity of everyday mothering practices\n Beyond static definitions of mothering\n Mothering as practice and process\n Mothering identities and processes of self-identification\n The complexity of non-normative mothering cultures in global contexts\n Mothering and non-mothering, individualism and life choices\n Biographical approaches to mothering and research on mothers’ lives\n Further reading\n References\n1 Becoming and being a Polish mother: narratives on the motherhood experience\n Introduction\n The ideal of the Polish Mother: the archetype of Polish womanhood\n The ‘socialist’ Polish mother\n Gender socialisation conditions: the Polish context\n Pluralism of motherhood experiences and models\n The current study\n Methods\n Findings\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n2 ‘A good mother is a good mother and a good wife’: gender politics and mothering practice among older Iranian Muslim women\n Introduction\n Iran and mothering practice\n Analytical framework\n Methods\n Findings\n Conclusion\n References\n3 Exploration of mothering and shifting identities in Kenya\n Introduction\n Social mothering: exploring the communal and relational world of mothers\n Methods\n Reconstructing childhood: creating boundaries and understanding the self\n Creating boundaries\n Social mothering in informal urban environments\n Situated stability in Melodi’s narrative: 1990–2005\n Turning points: social mothering put to the test\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n4 Biographies of Roma mothering in contemporary Czechia: exploring tapestries of multi-ethnic gendered identity in a marginalised social position\n Introduction\n Biographical perspectives on mothering\n Research, data set and analytical procedure\n Findings\n Exemplary biographical profiles of Czech Roma mothers\n Motherhood as care: the inseparability of mother and child\n Weaving a tapestry of mothering through gender, ethnic and economic constraints\n Conclusion\n Acknowledgements\n References\n5 Identities and life choices of mothers in a disadvantaged neighbourhood in England\n Introduction\n Methodology\n Procedures and participants\n Findings\n “The other side of the street does not know how we feel”\n Mothering and life choices\n Responses to societal expectations\n Mothers’ hard decisions for the sake of the children’s future\n Discussion\n Conclusion\n Acknowledgements\n Notes\n References\n6 Giving voice to Irish mothers experiencing separation and divorce\n Introduction\n The historical position of women in Irish society\n Methods\n Stories of difference\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n7 Ideal, good enough and failed motherhood: how disabled Canadian mothers manage in hostile circumstances\n Introduction\n Ideal motherhood and disability\n Disability embodiment\n Who should mother?\n Disabled women and ‘good enough’ motherhood\n Disability and precarious motherhood\n Disability and ‘failed’ motherhood\n Conclusion\n Appendix: biographical notes\n Notes\n References\n8 Confronting meanings of motherhood in neoliberal Australia: six crystallised case studies\n Introduction\n Narrative literature review\n “Clause 1: Acquiescence to judgement”\n “Clause 2: Adherence to intensive mothering ideology”\n “Clause 3: Adherence to economic independence\n Data and methods used\n The mothers\n Genevieve\n Paige\n Whitney\n Fran\n Luana\n Adeline\n Conclusion\n Acknowledgements\n Notes\n References\n9 Unplanned breakdown of foster mothering: biographical perspectives on identity challenges of foster mothers\n Introduction\n Foster care, foster carers, foster parents, foster mothers: roles, ambiguities and ideas\n Foster carers and foster parents\n The specific roles of foster mothers\n A study of foster mothers using the example of breakdown experiences\n Two case studies\n Perspective of a foster mother: Ms Baggins\n Perspective of a foster mother: Ms Meyer\n Case analysis: what the experience of unplanned breakdown shows about foster mothers\n The foster mothers consider themselves as mothers\n Justification for the breakdown of the placement\n Relief and failure\n Accumulation of stress in the foster family\n Foster mothers and foster sons\n Conclusion\n Notes\n References\n10 Non-mothers: identities, ambiguity, biography making and life choices\n Introduction\n Self-reflection\n Methodology\n Insider status\n Analysis of the interview findings\n Factors and experiences that influenced the women away from motherhood\n Childhood/caring responsibilities and the lack of a relationship with a parent\n Women’s experiences of poverty and financial issues\n Considerations and understandings of maternal instinct\n Fear of pregnancy: managing stigma and risk\n The project of the self: risk and wellbeing\n Conscious reflexive biography making\n Negotiating childfree biographies\n Negotiating childfree relationships\n Stigma and negative judgement surrounding women’s voluntary childlessness\n Managing family stigma\n Managing social stigma\n Conclusion\n My reflective journey\n Notes\n References\nConclusion Exploring mothering in future biographical research: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and new research agendas\n Mothers’ voices remaking and transcending socio-political circumstances\n Exploring novel research agendas on mothering: interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity and reflexivity\n Positionality and reflexivity\n COVID-19, transdisciplinarity and biographical research possibilities\n Final reflections\n References\nIndex