Narrating Mother Identities From Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12809736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beth Allen Easterling (Mary Baldwin College, corresponding author), Ben Feldmeyer (0000-0001-6703-1045, University of Cincinnati), Lois Presser (0000-0001-7736-8805, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 519-539 |
| Publication date | 2018-05-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Feminist Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-0851 • E-ISSN: 1557-086X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1557085118773457 |
| OpenAlex | W2804870629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 31 |
Incarcerated mothers face challenges to mothering in prison, including restricted opportunities to perform parenting tasks, ambiguous loss, and a compromised parenting identity. This study uses interviews with incarcerated mothers in the United States to explore how such women negotiate motherhood. All of the women grappled with how to care for their children from prison and projected futures that they hoped to experience as mothers. They varied in their active involvement as decision makers and in their intimacy with their children, but all were seen as renegotiating narrative identities. The study underscores the fact that social actors can be creative with self-narrative when they can be creative in few other ways
Criminology · Developmental psychology · Face (sociological concept · Futures contract · Identity (music · Narrative · Negotiation · Prison · Sociology · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology
Transformative mothering on the inside
Dehumanization in the United States carceral system
Professional or authentic motherhood? Negotiations on the identity of the birth mother in the context of foster care
“I Have Already Lost My Kids”
The Motherhood Experiences of Women Incarcerated at the Johannesburg Maximum Correctional Facility, in the Gauteng Province, South Africa
The gendered trauma trajectories of mothers entering prison
Mothering experiences in prison
Coping With Incarceration
From Custody to Support
Female Inmates
Relational trauma
They Still Know I’m Their Momma”
Prioritizing Protection
Your Hands are Tied, Literally
The Motherhood Penalty—Understanding the Gendered Role of Motherhood in the Life Histories of Incarcerated South African Women
I have to be a man for my son”
Stories of the “good father”
Prison Power and Control Dynamics
Women's Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence While Incarcerated
Failed Mothers, Risky Children
Grandma is the next best thing to mommy’
System management and compensatory parenting
They Tell Me I’m Dangerous’
Scum (of the Earth)
Stigma, Outsider Status and Mothers in Prison
Au-delà de la séparation
Between Grief and Relief
In the Mix
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
Making good
In the Wake
Maternal Distress and Women's Reentry into Family and Community Life
Incarcerated Mothers' Contact With Children, Perceived Family Relationships, and Depressive Symptoms.
Reentry and Renegotiating Motherhood
Saturday Morning at the Jail
Ambiguous Loss and Posttraumatic Stress in School-Age Children of Prisoners
Parental Incarceration and the Family
Disrupted Childhoods
Looking Beyond Caged Heat
Is Motherhood Important? Imprisoned Women’s Maternal Experiences Before and During Confinement and Their Postrelease Expectations
Narratives of self and identity in women's prisons
Parenting from Prison
Stigma, identity and power
Mad Men, Meth Moms, Moral Panic
The narratives of offenders
War on the Family
Some Methodological and Epistemological Implications of Doing Feminist Research on Non-Feminist Women
Ambiguous Loss Research, Theory, and Practice
Maternal and paternal imprisonment in the stress process
The narrative constitution of identity
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |