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Reimagining Stepmother

A Feminist Analysis of Step(m)otherings

By Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton

Published

Jun 1, 2025

Page count

208 pages

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Sociology of Children and Families

ISBN

978-1529236996

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press

Published

Jun 1, 2025

Page count

208 pages

Browse the series

Sociology of Children and Families

ISBN

978-1529237016

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Bristol University Press
Reimagining Stepmother

Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Stavanger.

1. Introduction: ‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…’

2. Theorising Stepmothers

3. Stepmothers and Stepfamilies in European Histories and Family Law(s)

4. Reimagining Stepmothers, Stepmotherhoods and Stepmotherings

5. Stepmothers’ Kinwork In/for Wider and Multigenerational Stepfamily

6. Unorthodox Ways of Doing Stepfamily

7. Conclusion: Stepmothers Reimagined