This paper examines a statistics debate among African American caregivers raising children with disabilities for insights into the work of "African American mothering." Using ethnographic, narrative and discourse analyses, we delineate the work that African American mothers do--in and beyond this conversation--to cross ideological and epistemological boundaries around race and disability. Their...

We explored the experiences of 12 women who mothered their children while they encountered challenges stemming from the legacy of childhood violence experiences. We examined the participants' narratives through critical, feminist, and symbolic interaction lenses to locate the forces and conditions facilitating and constraining women's mothering choices and decisions. Women's stories revealed th...

This article explores new definitions of good mothering among middleclass families in Calcutta and the way early years education, which has become popular over the last two decades has reshaped women’s lives as daughters-in-law and mothers of successful future white-collar workers. Through a detailed ethnography of mothers attitudes to preschool education and the parenting practices associated ...

Posting about one’s children and family has become a routine practice for mothers on social media. The task of presenting oneself as “good” mother is subject to the trouble competing requirements around motherhood (e.g., neoliberal intensive mothering, feminine relationality) well ideals which are unrealistic many. These troubles further complicated by sharenting discourses in parental posting ...