Single Parents: Representations and Resistance in an International Context
In: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
1.Introduction -- 2. Representation of Single Mothers in Petra Soukupova's Contemporary Czech Prose: Guilty Mothers and Uninvolved Fathers -- 3. Young Single Motherhood in Contemporary German and Irish Films: Lucy, Jelly Baby and Heartbreak -- 4. Unwed and Unwanted: Sofia and the Taboo of Single Motherhood in Morocco -- 5. Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons: Biology, Culture and Guilt -- 6. Single Dads in the Entertainment Arena: Hegemonic Hierarchies and Happy Endings -- 7. Single Fathers with Daughters in American Film -- 8. DILF or Ditched? Representations of the 'Single Father' in Swedish Internet-based Forum Discussions -- 9. On the Margins: The Experiences of Single Women who Conceive at Australian Fertility Clinics -- 10. Faire un bébé toute seule [A child on one's own]: Challenging France's Patriarchal Reproductive Laws in Single Mothers' Blogs and Discussion Forums -- 11. Reluctantly Solo? Representations of Single Mothers via Donor Procedure, Insemination and IVF in Swedish Newspapers -- 12. Plan B: Single Women, Romantic Love and the Making of Babies in The Back-Up Plan and The Switch.