Middle grounds: essays on midlife mothering

Abstract

On a Collision Course? Feminist Ideals and the Mothering Professional in Middle Age -- Falling Back, Springing Forward: An Older First-Time Mother's Experience of Time -- Balancing Motherhood, Work, and Mental Health in Midlife: One Mother's Personal Struggles -- Beyond Grasping for Straws in the Dark: Hospice as a Model for a Team-Oriented Approach to Mothering in Midlife -- Into and Out of the Fire: A Retrospective Journal -- Institutional Mothering: Middling between University, Home, and Jail -- Parenting through the Fog -- Lilia's World -- Grief -- Mothering Myself: A Journey with/to the Inner Child -- The Benefits and Injuries of Midlife Mothering through an Autoethnographic Lens: Or, Don't Call Me Grandma -- Midlife Burnout: Mothering, Multiple Roles, and Multiple Losses -- Failure Is Not an Option: Learning to Succeed at Parenting in Midlife -- Rock-a-Bye Baby: Mothering in Midlife -- Mother Unmoored: Letting Myself Be Lost, I Got Found -- My Mother's Mother -- Caricaturing Single, Midlife Motherhood in Vanity's Brief Encounters -- Taking Custody -- Home Economicus: Some Disjunctures in Midlife Mothering -- When Story Time Is Over: Mothering Adult Children by Practising Productive Silence.