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Close Relations and Boundary Work: Family, Kinship, and Beyond -- Conceptualizing Close Relations -- Querying Lesbian Fatherhood -- Gay and Lesbian Collaborative Co-Parenting: Recognising Multiple Parents in the Netherlands and the UK -- Forgetting Gender While Desexualizing Friendship? Heteronormativity and Everyday Practices of Cross-gender Friendship Among Adults in Germany -- The Search for Self: Adoption Reunions Kinship Matters, and Donor-conception -- Negotiating Trans/National Kinship -- Narrative Kinning in Contemporary Memoirs of Korean Adoption -- The Power of Ordinary Things: How Parents' Support of Refugees Shape Mothering and New Forms of Kinning -- 'My Mother Laughs, But She Never Smiles': Children, Mothers, and Migration in Contemporary Swedish Life Writing -- Theorizing Parenting practices and parent-child relations -- Polyamorous Parenthood: Kinship, Gender, and Morality -- Cultivate and Constrain: Swedish Middle-Class Parents Negotiate Ideals about Children's Emotions and Parents' Responses to them -- Childless Women's Relationships with Children of Others: Narratives from Two Generations In Lithuania -- 'Mums are Mums': Negotiations of Parenthood Ideals among Swedish Mothers with ADHD -- Morphing Together: Motherhood, Old Grievances, and Corporeal Materiality in Deborah Levy's Hot Milk.

Intro -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Introduction: Masculinity/Masculinities and Relationality -- Why Masculinity? -- Why Relationality? -- Chapter Outline -- References -- Exploring the Relationality of Fatherhood: John Irving's The Cider House Rules -- References -- Doing (Oppressive) Gender Via Men's Relations with Children -- Introduction -- The Neglect of Child Sexual Abuse -- "Domestic" Swedish Reasons for the Neglect of Child Sexual Abuse -- Neglect of Child Sexual Abuse: The International Context -- Ageist Tendencies in Gender Research on Men Internationally -- Conclusion -- References -- Making Friends: Constructions of Change, Masculine Positions, and Friendships Among Former Drug Users -- Making Distance, Producing Change -- Handling Voices from the Past -- Becoming Fast Friends -- Conclusion -- References -- Constructions of Masculinity: Constructions of Context - Relational Processes in Everyday Work -- Doing Control - Doing Gender -- Doing Masculinity - Doing Context -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- (Re)Doing Men in Museum Exhibitions? Masculinities and the Democratization of Heritage in South Africa -- The Issue of Democratizing Museums -- (Un)Doing White Masculinities -- (Un)Doing Marginalized Masculinities -- Invisible Masculinities Made Visible -- New Masculinities? -- Conclusion -- References -- Fear and Love: Masculinities and Emotions in Autobiographies by Swedish Politicians -- Politics and Emotions -- Father of the Country and Buddy: Leadership Ideals in the Social Democratic Party -- Self-Presentation: Titles and Covers -- The Social Democratic Self -- The Youth Organization: An Affective Network -- Political Power and Masculinity Ideals -- References.

Lone mothers are a diverse group but it has been argued in the previous research that they tend to be homogenised. This article explores representations of single mothers in Swedish newspapers. Material from the two largest morning papers and the two largest tabloids was collected from the years 2015–2017. The results of the study suggest that although the newspaper representations do not fully reflect the diversity of social realities, there are indeed varying images of lone mothers in the sample. A recurring representation is as a comparatively poor and hardworking—even heroic—woman, who in political argumentation is referred to as someone in need of societal support and policy reforms. A less frequent representation, that often occurs in lengthy, in-depth pieces, is the affluent official person who despite her prosperity struggles with combining single (good) motherhood with her career, or the middle-class woman who becomes a lone mother via assisted reproductive technologies. Teenage motherhood (i.e., age), race/ethnicity, sexuality, and welfare dependence are seldom, if at all, alluded to. There is no vilification or condemnation of the lone mother, as has been found in research on other national contexts.

Lone mothers are a diverse group but it has been argued in the previous research that they tend to be homogenised. This article explores representations of single mothers in Swedish newspapers. Material from the two largest morning papers and the two largest tabloids was collected from the years 2015–2017. The results of the study suggest that although the newspaper representations do not fully reflect the diversity of social realities, there are indeed varying images of lone mothers in the sample. A recurring representation is as a comparatively poor and hardworking—even heroic—woman, who in political argumentation is referred to as someone in need of societal support and policy reforms. A less frequent representation, that often occurs in lengthy, in-depth pieces, is the affluent official person who despite her prosperity struggles with combining single (good) motherhood with her career, or the middle-class woman who becomes a lone mother via assisted reproductive technologies. Teenage motherhood (i.e., age), race/ethnicity, sexuality, and welfare dependence are seldom, if at all, alluded to. There is no vilification or condemnation of the lone mother, as has been found in research on other national contexts.

1. Ambivalent Narratives of Motherhood and Mothering: From Normal and Natural to Not-at-all -- 2. One Hand Clapping: The Loneliness of Motherhood in Lucia Berlin's "Tiger Bites" -- 3. "their mothers, and their fathers, and everyone in between": Queering Motherhood in Trans Parent Memoirs by Jennifer Finney Boylan and Trystan Reese -- 4. Struggling to Become a Mother: Literary Representations of Involuntary Childlessness -- 5. Orality/Aurality and Voice of the Voiceless Mother in Abla Farhoud's Happiness Has a Slippery Tail -- 6. From Survivor to Im/migrant Motherhood and Beyond: Margit Silberstein's Postmemorial Autobiography, Förintelsens Barn -- 7. The (M)other's Voice: Representations of Motherhood in Contemporary Swiss Writing by Women -- 8. Contested Motherhood in Autobiographical Writing: Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti -- 9. A Plea for Motherhood: Mothering and Writing in Contemporary Norwegian Literature.

This open access volume offers original essays on how motherhood and mothering are represented in contemporary fiction and life writing across several national contexts. Providing a broad range of perspectives in terms of geopolitical places, thematic concerns, and theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches, it demonstrates the significance of literary narratives for understanding and critiquing motherhood and mothering as social phenomena and subjective experiences. The chapters contextualize motherhood and mothering in terms of their particular national and cultural location and analyze narratives about mothers who are firmly placed in one national context, as well as those who are in "in-between" positions due to migrant experiences. The contributions foreground and link together the themes central to the volume: embodied experience and maternal embodiment; notions of what is "normal" or natural (or not) about motherhood; maternal health and illness; mother-daughter relations; maternality and memory; and the (im)possibilities of giving voice to the mother. They raise questions about how motherhood and mothering are marked by absence and/or presence, as well as by profound ambivalences.