Feminist Perspectives on Young Mothers and Young Mothering is a ground-breaking and insightful book that explores the unique experiences of young mothers as they navigate complex patriarchal social structures, ideologies of mothering, and challenging and diverse social locations and circumstances. This book provides invaluable insight into the multiple and varied ways that young mothers experience mothering based on intersections of gender, race, social class, and age. The authors effectively highlight the voices, experiences, and counter-narratives of young mothers who challenge stigmatizing generalizations about young mothers? capabilities, underscoring the need for greater support and empowerment of young mothers and young mothering. The personal narratives of young mothers discussed in the chapters are significant, moving, and though-provoking. Academics, students, service providers, and the wider general public would benefit from reading this book as it provides a greater understanding of the experiences of young mothers and young mothering, which has been invisible for far too long.-- Caroline McDonald-Harker, PhD, Sociologist and Associate Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AlbertaThis inspiring collection celebrates the powerful, textured, and poignant voices of real and fictional young mothers as they bravely share ways in which they both combat various forms of stigmatization and oppression, and seek to defy cultural constraints and expectations of motherhood. The stunningly moving tales of struggle and success, oppression and resistance, empowerment and agency offer a rich intersectional, empathetic, and profoundly nuanced understanding of young motherhood and, in turn, ways to potentially support the empowerment of young mothers and their children. A must-read for folks interested in family and motherhood studies, and those engaged with youth and young mothers.

-- Fiona Joy Green, Professor of Women?s and Gender Studies. University of Winnipeg, Canada.