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Classed formations of shame in white, British single mothers

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:57 authored by Charlotte Morris, Sally Munt
This article discusses the formation of shame in a group of white heterosexual British women originally from middle-class backgrounds. Narrative interviews convey how participants perceive their lives to have been “spoiled” and stigmatised through becoming single mothers. They articulate perceptions of how their lives have fallen short of idealised heteronormative, middle-class trajectories of neoliberal success and adopt a range of narrative strategies to counter this, informed by the politics of shame in relation to single motherhood in contemporary Britain.

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Publication status

  • Published

File Version

  • Accepted version

Journal

Feminism & Psychology

ISSN

0959-3535

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

2

Volume

29

Page range

231-249

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  • Education Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-04-19

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2018-04-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-04-18

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