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Narratives of motherhood (2021)
Book Chapter
Smith, K., & Lockwood, K. (2021). Narratives of motherhood. In M. Montero-Sieburth, R. Mas Giralt, N. Garcia-Arjona, & J. Eguren (Eds.), Family Practices in Migration (175-191). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003132561-9

Focusing on the subjective and relational nature of stories and storytelling, in this chapter the authors adopt a feminist narrative approach to understand the way in which mothering identities are constructed through storytelling in the context of a... Read More about Narratives of motherhood.

The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison (2020)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2020). The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (145-162). Emerald Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201011

Academic literature portrays prison officers in various ways; as insensitive figures lurking in the background (Cohen & Taylor, 1972) as brutes prone to violence (Kauffman, 1988) or more positively as noble people struggling to get the job done as be... Read More about The gendered nature of prison work : empathy, mothering and emotions of female prison officers in a women's prison.

Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment (2020)
Book Chapter
Abbott, L., & Lockwood, K. (2020). Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (49-66). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201006

Around 7% of the female prison population are pregnant (Albertson, O'Keeffe, Lessing-Turner, Burke & Renfrew, 2014; Kennedy, Marshall, Parkinson, Delap & Abbott, 2016; Prison Reform Trust, 2019). However, although recent years have witnessed growing... Read More about Negotiating pregnancy, new motherhood and imprisonment.

The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children (2020)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2020). The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children. In K. Lockwood (Ed.), Mothering from the inside : research on motherhood and imprisonment (105-125). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-343-320201009

Focussing on the individual stories of mothers in prison and those who have recently been released from prison, within this chapter, I consider the way in which women story motherhood in relation to older adult children. Presenting three interrelated... Read More about The ties that bind : stories of women in prison who are mothers to older adult children.

Narratives of motherhood : seeking asylum (2019)
Book Chapter
Smith, K., & Lockwood, K. Narratives of motherhood : seeking asylum. In R. Mas Giralt, M. Montero-Siebuth, J. Eguren, & N. Garcia-Arjona (Eds.), Contemporary perspectives on migrant families, children and youth. UK: Sage. Manuscript submitted for publication

Women seeking asylum with their children are amongst the most marginalised and stigmatised women in the UK. Often overlooked in existing research that prioritises the lived experiences of the single, often young, male seeking asylum, we know little a... Read More about Narratives of motherhood : seeking asylum.

Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison (2018)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2018). Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison. In T. Taylor, & K. Bloch (Eds.), Marginalized mothers, mothering from the margins. Emerald Publishing

Imprisonment can severely alter, disrupt or even terminate mothering. Yet, often seen by society as giving up on or abandoning their children, women in prison tend to invoke less empathy or tolerance than women whose mothering is disrupted through ot... Read More about Disrupted identities : narratives of mothers in prison.

Moving forward : opportunities and challenges (2017)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K., Smith, K., & Woodiwiss, J. (2017). Moving forward : opportunities and challenges. In J. Woodiwiss, K. SMith, & K. Lockwood (Eds.), Feminist narrative research : opportunities and challenges (207-213). London: Palgrave Macmillan

Listening to Mum : narratives of mothers in prison (2017)
Book Chapter
Lockwood, K. (2017). Listening to Mum : narratives of mothers in prison. In J. Woodiwiss, K. Smith, & K. Lockwood (Eds.), Feminist narrative research : opportunities and challenges (123-146). London: Palgrave Macmillan