Single parents : representations and resistance in an international context / Berit Åström, Disa Bergnehr, editors.
Åström, Berit, editor.; Bergnehr, Disa, editor.
2021
HQ759.915
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Title Single parents : representations and resistance in an international context / Berit Åström, Disa Bergnehr, editors.
ISBN 9783030713119 (electronic bk.)
3030713113 (electronic bk.)
3030713105
9783030713102
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71311-9
Publication Details Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-71311-9 doi
Call Number HQ759.915
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.856
Summary This edited volume addresses how single mothers and fathers are represented in novels, self-help literature, daily newspapers, film and television, as well as within their own narratives in interviews on social media. With proportions varying between countries, the number of single parents has been increasing steadily since the 1970s in the Western world. Contributions to this volume analyse how various societies respond to these parents and family forms. Through a range of materials, methodologies and national perspectives, chapters make up three sections to cover single mothers, single fathers and solo mothers (single women who became parents through assisted reproductive technologies). The authors reveal that single parenthood is divided along the lines of gender and socioeconomic status, with age, sexuality and the reason for being a single parent coming into play. Berit Astrom is Associate Professor of English Literature at Umea University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the representation of mothers, motherhood and mothering in literature, film and television. Her recent publications include The Absent Mother in the Cultural Imagination (2017). Disa Bergnehr is Professor of Education at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her primary research areas are (nuclear, single and refugee) family life, home-school relations, schooling in disadvantaged areas, childrens socialization, and childrens and parents' wellbeing and agency.
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Series Palgrave Macmillan studies in family and intimate life.
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1. Introduction
2. Representation of Single Mothers in Petra Soukupova's Contemporary Czech Prose: Guilty Mothers and Uninvolved Fathers
3. Young Single Motherhood in Contemporary German and Irish Films: Lucy, Jelly Baby and Heartbreak
4. Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco
5. Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons: Biology, Culture and Guilt
6. Single Dads in the Entertainment Arena: Hegemonic Hierarchies and Happy Endings
7. Single Fathers with Daughters in American Film
8. DILF or Ditched? Representations of the 'Single Father' in Swedish Internet-based Forum Discussions
9. On the Margins: The Experiences of Single Women who Conceive at Australian Fertility Clinics
10. Faire un bebe toute seule [A child on ones own]: Challenging Frances Patriarchal Reproductive Laws in Single Mothers Blogs and Discussion Forums
11. Reluctantly Solo? Representations of Single Mothers via Donor Procedure, Insemination and IVF in Swedish Newspapers
12. Plan B: Single Women, Romantic Love and the Making of Babies in The Back-Up Plan and The Switch.

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