Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

Introduction: Biographical Approaches to Mothering - Identities and Lived Realities - Lyudmila Nurse, Lisa Moran and Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku


1. Becoming and Being a Polish Mother: Narratives on the Motherhood Experience - Katarzyna Gajek, Poland


2. "A Good Mother is a Good Mother and a Good Wife": Gender Politics and Mothering Practice Among Older Iranian Muslim Women - Elham Amini, UK


3. Exploration of Mothering and Shifting Identities in Kenya - Fibian Lukalo, Kenya


4. Biographies of Roma Mothering in Contemporary Czechia. Exploring Tapestries of Multi-ethnic Gendered Identity in a Marginalised Social Position - Katerina Sidiropulu Janku, Austria & Jana Obrovska, Czech Republic


5. Identities and Life Choices of Mothers in a Disadvantaged Neighbourhood in England - Lyudmila Nurse, UK


6. Giving Voice to Irish Mothers Experiencing Separation and Divorce - Rosemary Crosse and Michelle Millar, Ireland


7. Ideal, Good Enough, and Failed Motherhood: How Disabled Canadian Mothers Manage in Hostile Circumstances - Claudia Malacrida, Canada


8. Confronting Meanings of Motherhood in Neoliberal Australia: Six Crystallized Case Studies - Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke & Jasneek Chawla, Australia


9. Unplanned Breakdown of Foster Mothering: Biographical Perspectives on Identity Challenges of Foster Mothers - Daniela Reimer, Switzerland


10. Non-Mothers: Identities, Ambiguity, Biography Making and Life Choices - Joan Cronin, Ireland


Conclusion: Exploring Mothering in Future Biographical Research: Interdisciplinarity, Transdisciplinarity and New Research Agendas - Lisa Moran, Lyudmila Nurse and Katerina Sidiropulu-Janku