About the Author

Dr. Caroline McDonald-Harker is a Sociologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Alberta (2011), MA in Sociology from McGill University (2002), and BA Honours in Sociology from Queen’s University (2001). Caroline is the mother of 3 young children. Her areas of expertise include: the sociology of motherhood/mothering, gender, family, domestic violence, disasters, social inequality, social policy, and qualitative research methods. She is a contributing author to Criminalized Mothers, Criminalizing Mothering,/em> (Demeter 2015) and the co-editor of upcoming Demeter Press edited collection book Mothering in Disasters/Mothering Disasters. She is currently conducting a 3-year study on the impact of disasters on the family (with a focus on mothers and mothering) funded by a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.

Reviews

?This study is innovative and of great value in presenting complex, nuanced, agentic and diverse subjectivities of mothers who have experienced domestic abuse. In qualitatively studying and giving space to the voices of mothers who have experienced abuse, the book addresses an intersection under-explored in the field. By exploring their resistances to, and rejections of, dominant discourses of motherhood, this text provides rare narrative portraits of mothers who have endured abusive relationships. This book should be read by academics as well as activists, by anyone who seeks to understand the lived realities and subjectivities of mothers who live in, or have survived abuse. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, the book will be a valuable resource for mothers who have themselves suffered abuse, affording a venue for them to see themselves represented as subjects, not merely statistical samples or passive objects.? ?Rebecca Bromwich, Ph.D., LL.B., LL.M., Instructor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa