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  • Mothering through and in Violence: Discourses of the ‘Good Mother’

    Author(s)
    Maher, JM
    Fitz-Gibbon, K
    Meyer, S
    Roberts, S
    Pfitzner, N
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Meyer, Silke
    Year published
    2021
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    Abstract
    Domestic and family violence research recognises mothering is impacted by and implicated in abusive relationships and increasingly attends to the negative impacts of domestic and family violence on children, whether or not they are direct targets of perpetrator abuse. Contemporary research also situates the undermining of the mother/child relationship as common in abusive relationships. Bringing together data from two projects – one investigating the experiences of women with disability, and one focused on women experiencing family violence from their adolescent children – we examine a further way in which mothering is ...
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    Domestic and family violence research recognises mothering is impacted by and implicated in abusive relationships and increasingly attends to the negative impacts of domestic and family violence on children, whether or not they are direct targets of perpetrator abuse. Contemporary research also situates the undermining of the mother/child relationship as common in abusive relationships. Bringing together data from two projects – one investigating the experiences of women with disability, and one focused on women experiencing family violence from their adolescent children – we examine a further way in which mothering is impacted by family violence. While there were distinct challenges for each group of mothers, we argue that adaptable and damaging discourses of the ‘good mother’ impact mothers in situations of domestic and family violence. We argue that unchallenged accounts of ‘good’ mothers as fully responsible for their children animate persistent discourses of mother-blame. These discourses should be understood as a gendered driver of domestic and family violence.
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    Journal Title
    Sociology
    Volume
    55
    Issue
    4
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038520967262
    Subject
    Social work
    Criminological theories
    Sociology of gender
    Family law
    Sociology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/411585
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