Suchergebnisse

On a Collision Course? Feminist Ideals and the Mothering Professional in Middle Age -- Falling Back, Springing Forward: An Older First-Time Mother's Experience of Time -- Balancing Motherhood, Work, and Mental Health in Midlife: One Mother's Personal Struggles -- Beyond Grasping for Straws in the Dark: Hospice as a Model for a Team-Oriented Approach to Mothering in Midlife -- Into and Out of the Fire: A Retrospective Journal -- Institutional Mothering: Middling between University, Home, and Jail -- Parenting through the Fog -- Lilia's World -- Grief -- Mothering Myself: A Journey with/to the Inner Child -- The Benefits and Injuries of Midlife Mothering through an Autoethnographic Lens: Or, Don't Call Me Grandma -- Midlife Burnout: Mothering, Multiple Roles, and Multiple Losses -- Failure Is Not an Option: Learning to Succeed at Parenting in Midlife -- Rock-a-Bye Baby: Mothering in Midlife -- Mother Unmoored: Letting Myself Be Lost, I Got Found -- My Mother's Mother -- Caricaturing Single, Midlife Motherhood in Vanity's Brief Encounters -- Taking Custody -- Home Economicus: Some Disjunctures in Midlife Mothering -- When Story Time Is Over: Mothering Adult Children by Practising Productive Silence.

"As queerspawn, we have often presented our lives to conform to other people's expectations of what has been difficult for us, and what we have risen above. We have felt the pressure to be perfect in order to prove to the skeptics, the disbelievers, the pessimists, the straight-up haters, that we are a social experiment gone 'right,' producing 'well-adjusted' children. This anthology is about carving out a space for our voices. It is an attempt to create space for our stories without the pressures of having to conform to a narrative that demands perfection, that demands proving to on-lookers, both outside of and within queer communities, that we turned out 'all right.' If you are looking for that narrative in this collection, you won't find it. Instead you will find voices that ask: What does it mean to be 'well-adjusted' in a world that teaches us to lie about our imperfections and to believe that we are alone in those imperfections? What does it means to be 'well adjusted' in a world that is ripe with problems and fraught with violence? What does it mean to be resilient in a world that will not allow us to reveal our imperfections for fear of putting our family's safety at risk? We are in fact, and all at once, resilient, imperfect, and fiercely protective of our families. We exist in a world of grey and this anthology is a reflection of our actual experiences, airbrushed for no one - at times humorous, light, joyous, prideful, and hopeful, at other times sad, and full of grief, guilt, shame, denial, resentment, and anger."--