Narrating Mother Identities From Prison

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12809736
AutoresBeth Allen Easterling (Mary Baldwin College, autor de correspondencia), Ben Feldmeyer (0000-0001-6703-1045, University of Cincinnati), Lois Presser (0000-0001-7736-8805, University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
Año2018
Volumen14
Número5
Páginas519-539
Fecha de publicación2018-05-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Criminology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1557-0851 • E-ISSN: 1557-086X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1557085118773457
OpenAlexW2804870629
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas27
Referencias citadas31

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