Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia. She has published two previous books on homelessness with Routledge: Homelessness and Social Work: An Intersectional Approach (Zufferey, 2017) and Faces of Homelessness in the Asia Pacific (Zufferey & Yu (eds), 2018), as well as The Sexual Politics of Gendered Violence and Women’s Citizenship (Franzway, Wendt, Moulding, Zufferey & Chung, Policy Press, 2019).Fiona Buchanan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia. She has published widely in international journals and authored four book chapters. Her book Mothering in Domestic Violence: Beyond Attachment Theory was published by Routledge in 2017.

• Introduction: theorising intersectional feminism and mothering; PART I: REPOSITIONING MOTHERHOOD; ‘Out of bounds’: maternal regret and the reframing of normative motherhood; ‘Failed’ mothers, ‘failed’ womxn: demarcating normative mothering; ‘Woman’ and (un)partnered mother; Childcare as a public and common good: a Canadian perspective; PART II: DIVERSE CONTEXTS AND RESPONSES; Life’s a Mardi Gras: lesbian parenting in the context of ‘equality': '...we still have so far to go for full acceptance'; All in the same boat? Migration and motherhood online; Aboriginal mothering in the Australian context; Mothering without a home ; Too little, too late: mothers, children and parental terminations; PART III: VIOLENCE AND MOTHERING; Raising children born of war in Bosnia: reframing perspectives on mother love through a mother-daughter case study; Current mothering discourses and domestic violence: a double whammy; ‘We never quite measure up, do we?’: an intersectional approach to mothering, mental health and social inequality; ‘Just another side of the coin’: support for women as mothers in the context of domestic violence; Shifting practice in domestic violence: child protection workers partnering with mothers; Conclusion: beyond the intersections of mothering.

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