Unbecoming mothers : the social production of maternal absence /
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| Imprint: | New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | xix, 256 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haworth marriage and family therapy |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5841616 |
Table of Contents:
- About the Editor
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Framing the Discussion
- Part I. Perspectives from the Inside Looking Out
- Chapter 2. The Social Construction of Maternal Absence
- The Good Mother/Bad Mother Binary
- The Binary of Becoming/Unbecoming Mothers
- Examining Acts of Resistance
- Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 3. Abject Mothers: Women Separated from Their Babies Lost to Adoption
- Adoption and Relinquishment
- Reading Kristeva
- Adoption As Abjection: The Unnameable, the Unspeakable
- Reflecting on Abjection
- Chapter 4. Clarifying Choice: Identity, Trauma, and Motherhood
- Clarifying Choice: Cynthia's Story
- Reflections on Identity, Motherhood, and Trauma
- Chapter 5. Sandy's Story: Re-Storying the Self
- 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
- Part II. Perspectives from the Outside Looking in
- Chapter 6. "Forsaking Their Children": Distance, Community, and Unbecoming Quaker Mothers, 1650-1700
- 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
- Chapter 8. Missing Mothers in a Mother-Centered World: Adolescent Girls Growing Up in Kinship Care
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Substance Use, Pregnancy, and Mothering
- Research Process
- Findings
- Discussion: Directions from Women and Human Service Practitioners
- Index
