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Unbecoming mothers : the social production of maternal absence /

"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, surr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gustafson, Diana L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Haworth Clinical Practice Press, [2005]
Colección:Haworth marriage and family therapy.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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].