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Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

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Advances in Gender Research

Series Editors: Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos

Recent Volumes:

Editorial Advisory Board

• Miriam Adelman

  Universidade Federal do

  Paraná, Brazil

• Marla Kohlman

  Kenyon College, USA

• Franca Bimbi

  Universita Degli Studi di

  Padova, Italy

• Chika Shinohara

  Momoyama Gakuin University

  (St. Andrew’s University), Japan

• Max Greenberg

  University of Southern California,

  Los Angeles, USA

• Tiffany Taylor

  Kent State University, Kent, USA

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Advances in Gender Research Volume 25

Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins

Edited By

Tiffany Taylor

Kent State University, USA

and

Katrina Bloch

Kent State University, USA

United Kingdom – North America – Japan India – Malaysia – China

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ISSN: 1529-2126 (Series)

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Acknowledgments

This book grew out of the editors’ growing interest in marginalized mothers over the past decade. We are grateful to the series editors, Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal, for believing in our vision and giving us the opportunity to put together these important chapters. We are also indebted to those on the Editorial Board of Advances in Gender Research and other scholars who reviewed the research submitted for this collection. We would also like to thank Brianna Turgeon for her helpful feedback along the way. Lastly, of course, we would like to thank all the authors who submitted chapters for consideration for the volume who give voice to marginalized mothers, and to Nancy Naples who agreed to write the Afterword at short notice.

Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch

Series Editors’ Preface

We are pleased to include in our Advances in Gender Research series, volume 25 – Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins. Insofar as mothering is a critical aspect of gender differentiation and inequality, Tiffany Taylor and Katrina Bloch’s volume is an important contribution to the study of gender. The volume considers the hidden, the overlooked, and the denied mothering that exist right alongside the greeting card images and verses sent on Mother’s Day throughout the world, and in so doing brings us to a fuller understanding of mothers and mothering, thereby centering knowledge about this subject.

Vasilikie Demos and Marcia Texler Segal

AGR Series Co-Equal Editors

List of Contributors

Regina S. Baker is an Assistant Professor of Sociology of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her research examines how micro- and macrofactors produce, maintain, and reproduce inequality across individuals, families, and place. Her current work addresses poverty in the south, regional disparities, and cumulative disadvantage among low-income families and children.

Linda M. Burton is the James B. Duke Professor of Sociology at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. She directed the Three-City Study ethnography and a multisite team ethnography of families and poverty in rural communities. Her research examines how contextual forces and familial circumstances influence accelerated life course transitions of children and adults.

Anna Chatillon is a Doctoral Student of the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Her research examines the intersections of race and gender in feminist organizing with particular attention to the influence of racialized constructions of motherhood on feminist priorities and tactics.

Karen Christopher is an Associate Professor of Sociology of the University of Louisville, USA. Her research explores gender, race, and class in families and workplaces. She has published on these topics in Gender & Society, Feminist Economics, and Race, Class & Gender.

Cheryl Crane is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Franklin College, USA. Her research examines mothering, maternal support, and the intersections of race, class, and gender in families and social policy.

Jordon Creaghan (MSc, Finance Management; BSc, Sociology) is a Management Information Analyst of Hodge Lifetime, UK. His BSc/MSc research focused on management structure and interpersonal relationships. Jordon was involved in the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) funded study and contributed to the fieldwork and analysis.

Alexis Franzese is an Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Elon University, USA. Prior to joining the faculty in 2011, Alexis completed her doctoral study at Duke University in Durham, where she completed two separate doctoral degrees in Sociology and Clinical Psychology.

Dunla Gallagher (MSc, Health Psychology; BSc, Psychology) is a Doctoral Researcher of the Centre for Trials Research at Cardiff University, UK. Her thesis focuses on the impact of obesity on pregnancy outcomes for the mother and the child. Her general research interests lie in the determinants of health and behavior change.

Aimee Grant is a Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow of Cardiff University, UK. Her research examines motherhood, space, and stigma through the empirical study of infant feeding. Her sole authored text Doing EXCELLENT Research with Documents: Practical Examples and Guidance for Researchers will be published by Routledge in 2018.

Sheila M. Katz is an Assistant Professor of Sociology of the University of Houston, USA, and an affiliated women’s, gender, and sexuality studies’ faculty. She is a scholar activist whose qualitative sociological applied research focuses on gender and poverty, specifically, low income women’s experiences in domestic violence, grassroots activism, and higher education.

Kelly Lockwood is a Criminology Lecturer of the University of Salford, England. Her work focuses on feminist narrative methodologies, disrupted mothering, and gender and the criminal justice system. Kelly is particularly interested in how motherhood is understood and experienced by women in prison.

Cynthia Magallanes-Gonzalez received her undergraduate bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Occidental College at Los Angeles, CA, USA. She was a Fulbright student research grantee in Morocco conducting research on Sub-Saharan migrant activism. Cynthia is currently Master’s Student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Dawn Mannay is a Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences of Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests embrace identity and inequality. Dawn’s publications include Our Changing Land: Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales (University Wales Press, 2016) and Visual, Narrative and Creative Research Methods: Application, Reflection and Ethics (Routledge, 2016).

Sherelle Mason (BA, Social Sciences) is a Teaching Assistant of Teaching Personnel, UK. Her undergraduate research focused on sex education. Sherelle contributed to the Cardiff Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (CUROP) and Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) studies. Sherelle intends to train as an educational psychologist.

Sancha D. Medwinter is a Community Researcher and Assistant Professor of Sociology of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Her research examines the consequences of policy, practice, and norms on the well-being of poor, marginalized communities in the United States and the Caribbean. Her work spans international disasters, humanitarian crises, social welfare, race, immigration, citizenship, race/class diversity, and inclusion in public schools and higher education.

Melanie Morgan is a Research Assistant of the Centre for Trials Research at Cardiff University, UK. Her research interests revolve around social class, higher education, gender, and psychosocial research methods. Her work at the Centre for Trials Research has centered on motherhood and service provision related to health and social care.

Cassaundra Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor of Sociology of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. Currently, she is working on a book project on how members of Mexican mixed-status families – that is families that include US citizens and undocumented immigrants – experience and articulate belonging.

Alanna E. F. Rudzik is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology of the State University of New York College at Oneonta, USA, and has conducted research in Brazil, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Dr Rudzik’s research focuses primarily on women’s experiences during the early postpartum period and brings together ethnographic and biological research methods.

Beth E. Schneider is a Professor of Sociology of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and Director of the McNair Scholars Program. Her published work centers on sexuality, health (HIV/AIDS), and social movements. She served as the editor of Gender & Society and was the 2017 recipient of the SWS Feminist Mentoring Award.

Boitumelo Seepamore is a Lecturer of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and currently completing her PhD in Social Work, where she is researching distance parenting among domestic workers. She has been involved in the community as a volunteer HIV counselor, working with abused women living in downtown Johannesburg.

Kaitlin Stober is currently a Research Specialist of Chicago’s Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois, USA. She earned graduated BA in Sociology and Art from Elon University in 2015 and MS in disability studies from Trinity College Dublin, UK in 2017.

Taura Taylor is a PhD Candidate of the Department of Sociology of the Georgia State University, USA. Her research interests are varied, ranging from sociology of education to social movements to entrepreneurship, all of which converge in her interest in cognitive pluralism, intersectionality, and microlevel resistances.

Jill Weigt is a Professor of Sociology of the California State University San Marcos, USA. With Sandra Morgen and Joan Acker, she is a co-author of Stretched Thin: Poor Families, Welfare Work, and Welfare Reform (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Kristin J. Wilson is a Chair of the Anthropology of the Department at Cabrillo College, USA and an instructor of women’s studies. She is the author of Not Trying: Infertility, Childlessness, & Ambivalence (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) and Others’ Milk: The Potential of Exceptional Breastfeeding (Rutgers University Press, 2018).

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