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Zusatztext 'Trish Green's engaging and well-argued book provides a rich analysis of the complex experiences and reconfigurations in emotions! identities and biographies that mothers face when their adult children leave home. This book will be important reading for those seeking to understand an aspect of mothers' family lives that has been silenced conceptually! culturally and empirically.' Rosalind Edwards! London South Bank University! UK 'Drawing on a fascinating body of empirical data that describe adult children leaving home! this book considerably expands contemporary western visions of motherhood! demonstrating the scope of its relational qualities throughout the life course. In so doing it questions the values attributed to independence and autonomy! demonstrating their capacity to distort our perceptions of the emotional geographies of family relatedness.' Jenny Hockey!University of Sheffield! UK Informationen zum Autor Trish Green is Research Associate in the Natural Burial Project at the University of Sheffield Klappentext The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focussed 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. Zusammenfassung Addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving. This discusses how the mother's experience of separation is silenced by the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood per se and by the privileging of the child's transition to adulthood. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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...
