Unbecoming mothers : the social production of maternal absence /

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Imprint:	New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, [2005] ©2005
Description:	1 online resource (xix, 256 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Haworth marriage and family therapy Haworth marriage and family therapy.
Subject:	Absentee mothers. Motherhood. Mothers -- psychology. Maternal Deprivation. Psychology, Social. Absentee mothers. Motherhood. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11303374

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Other authors / contributors:	Gustafson, Diana L.
ISBN:	9781135426583 1135426589 0789024527 9780789024527 0789024535 9780789024534 9781135426651 1135426651
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	"In a society where becoming a mother is naturalized, "unbecoming" a mother - the process of coming to live apart from biological children - is regarded as unnatural, improper, or even contemptible, Few mothers are more stigmatized than those who are perceived as having given up, surrendered, or abandoned their birth children. Unbecoming Mothers: The Social Production of Maternal Absence examines this phenomenon within the social and historical context of parenting in Canada, Australia, Britain, and the United States, with critical observations from social workers, policymakers, and historians. This unique book offers insights from the perspectives of children on the outside looking in and the lived experiences of women on the inside looking out."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Unbecoming mothers 0789024527

Table of Contents:

Framing the discussion / Diana L. Gustafson
The social construction of maternal absence / Diana L. Gustafson
Abject mothers : women separated from their babies lost to adoption / Patricia D. Farrar
Clarifying choice : identity, trauma, and motherhood / Linda L. Anderson
Sandy's story : re-storying the self / Lekkie Hopkins
"Forsaking their children" : distance, community, and unbecoming Quaker mothers, 1650-1700 / Susanna Calkins
Unnatural mothers : lone mothers and the practice of child rescue, 1901-1930 / Robert Adamoski
Missing mothers in a mother-centered world : adolescent girls growing up in kinship care / Deborah Connolly Youngblood
Looking promising : contradictions and challenges for young mothers in care / Marilyn Callahan [and others]
Leaving to grow/inspiration to grow/leaving inspiration / Gill Wright Miller
Perspectives of substance-using women and human service practitioners : reflections from the margins / Deborah Rutman [and others].

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