Trish Green

Motherhood, Absence and Transition

When Adult Children Leave Home

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving. The book makes clear how the mother's experience of separation is silenced, first by the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood per se, second by the privileging of the child's transition to adulthood, and third by a neglect of the relational dimension of this particular life-course transition. In doing so the book makes an important contribution to debates on ageing, identity and the life-course, and will be of great interest to sociologists with various academic interests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 310g
• ISBN-13: 9781138260313
• ISBN-10: 1138260312
• Artikelnr.: 57041697

Autorenporträt

Trish Green is Research Associate in the Natural Burial Project at the University of Sheffield

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements, Introduction: Motherhood, Absence and Transition, 1 Becoming and Being a Mother, 2 Researching Mothers
Experiences, 3 Modelling Motherhood, 4 Managing the Process of Separation, 5 Post-Separation Communication, 6 Mothers
Futures, 7 Conclusion: Reflections on Motherhood, Absence and Transition, Appendix 1: Participants
Biographies, Appendix 2: Interview Guide, Bibliography, Index