This work provides a look at the experience of mothers whose diverse life circumstances put them outside the realm of the traditional "good mother". The chapter

We all know what a "good mother" looks like on television and in the popular imagination: typically she is white, heterosexual, and married, and devotes herself

A large proportion—and in many jurisdictions the majority—of incarcerated women are mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by children

This book brings critical, scholarly attention to the systematic positioning and subjective experiences of mothers involved in child protection processes in “

At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski nee