%0 Journal Article
%T Classed formations of shame in white, British single mothers
%A Charlotte Morris
%A Sally R Munt
%J Feminism & Psychology
%@ 1461-7161
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0959353518787847
%X 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 ˇ°spoiledˇ± 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
%K shame
%K heteronormativity
%K single mothers
%K narrative
%K identity
%K class
%K respectability
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959353518787847