Motherhood is under review. What counts as a 'good mother'is receiving attention in both
popular and academic contexts (Arendell, 2000; Hays, 1996). The mothers we spoke with …

One of the most dominant cultural narratives is 'the story of mothering'but as many
researchers have documented, there is a large chasm between this cultural product and …

This article critically explores the modern myth of motherhood through my personal life story
as a mother. Feelings of rejection of the demands and expectations of my motherly role led …

Through personal narrative, the author shows the experience of new motherhood by
juxtaposing a social science relationship researcher role with middle-class cultural …

Evoking and listening to research voices raises issues about the contingency and
precariousness of the perspectives being voiced. For private perspectives and …

Being a mother is conventionally associated with happiness. For many mothers, however,
mothering is filled with conflict, anxiety, and ambivalence. Yet maternal ambivalence often …

In this chapter I discuss narrative frameworks and dominant narratives. I argue for the need
to go beyond the story as told to explore how and why we come to tell particular stories …

This article explores multiple identities and meanings of mothering by interpreting two
narrative performances of mothering in the early 1970s. One performance is from a work of …

The mother-daughter relationship has preoccupied feminist writers for decades, but typically
it has been the daughter's story at centre-stage. Mothering the Self brings together these …

Teenage pregnancy is typically presented as a problem to be solved, if not as an epidemic
in need of urgent intervention. This paper reports on Australian research that examined the …