Working hard to resist a 'bad mother' label: Narratives of non-resident motherhood

Qualitative Social Work

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 363-379

  Kielty, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discursive construction of experience; Non resident mothers; Social worker support; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 50849141337     PISSN: 14733250     EISSN: 17413117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473325008093707     Document Type: Article

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