INTRODUCTION

Chapter I-Mothers as Entrepreneurs: Negotiating Work and Life Complexities in the Global Economy-Talia Esnard and Melanie Knight 3-39

SECTION I- NEGOTIATING NEOLIBERALISMS AND AUTONOMY

Chapter II-Reproducing Precarity: Representations of Mompreneurship, Family and Work in a British Columbian Parenting Magazine- Joseph Moore and Gillian Anderson 42-71

Chapter III-Mom-preneur: Is this a real job?-Allison Weidhaas 72-104

Chapter IV-Structured Agency and Motherhood among Copreneurs in the Czech Republic
Nancy Jurik, Gray Cavender, Alena Křížková, and Marie Pospíšilová 105-141

SECTION II- RACE, CULTURE, AND MARKET ACTIVITY

Chapter V- Reclaiming motherhood and family: How Black mothers use entrepreneurship to nurture family and community - Melanie Knight 143-170

Chapter VI- Autohistoria-teoría: Lessons from a Deviant Bar Owner
Marissa Cisneros 171-195

SECTION III- REFRAMING LIFE-CAREER

Chapter VII- Positionality, Work-Life Interface and Early Career Engagement: The Case of Entrepreneurial Mothers in Jamaica–Talia Esnard 197-224

Chapter VIII-Mumpreneurship and Quality of Life in Trinidad and Tobago: Capabilities and Constraints-Ayanna Frederick 225-256

Chapter IX- Doing all that Matters: A Relational Career Psychology Perspective on Mother-Entrepreneurship Career Success-Rebecca Hudson Breen and Silvia Vilches 257-292

CONCLUSION

Chapter X-Shifting the lens: the Complexity of Space and Practice for Entrepreneurial Mothers-Talia Esnard and Melanie Knight 293-307

Talia Esnard (talia.esnard@sta.uwi.edu)
Talia Esnard is a Lecturer (Sociology) and Head/Chair of the Department of Behavioural Sciences, at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research centers on issues related to women’s experiences in the entrepreneurial and educational spheres. Some of her work has been published in (i) Journal of Motherhood Initiative, (ii) Women, Gender and Families of Color, (iii) Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, (iv) Mentoring and Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, and (v) NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education. Dr. Esnard is also a co-author of Black women, academe and the tenure process in the United States and the Caribbean. She was also a recipient of Taiwan Research Fellowship (2012) and Canada-CARICOM Faculty Leadership Program (2015-Brock University & 2018-Ryerson University).

Melanie Knight (melanie.knight@ryerson.ca)
Melanie Knight is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her research interests are grounded in Black activism/organizing, Black collective economic initiatives, Black women business owners, and the subtext of race and gender in the discourse of enterprise. Her work has been published in the journal of Critical Race and Whiteness Studies, Gender, Work & Organization and the Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire. Outside of her work in the academy, she collaborates with a number of community organizations that deliver programs and advocate for the health and well‐being of Black Canadians. She also supports organizations that promote Black history and heritage. In 2018 she was awarded the Viola Desmond faculty award.

Alena Křížková is a senior researcher and head of Gender & Sociology Department at the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She conducts research on economic justice, gender discrimination, and gender in entrepreneurship. She is a country expert for the European Commission in the Network of Experts.

Allison Weidhaas, PhD, an associate professor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ., researches gender issues. She published a book titled: Female Business Owners in Public Relations: Constructing Identity at Home and at Work. Weidhaas is also the director of Rider’s two graduate degrees in Business Communication and Health Communication.

Ayanna Frederick holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Commercial Studies. Her research centers mainly on small business management, entrepreneurship and well-being, and female entrepreneurship. She has shared segments of her work at conferences in the Caribbean, the United States and Australia. She is also an educational entrepreneur by profession.

Gray Cavender is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University whose focus is media studies. Books include Corporate Crime under Attack: the Fight to Criminalize Business Violence (Anderson), and Provocateur for Justice: Jane Tennison and Policing in “Prime Suspect” (University of Illinois Press).

Gillian Anderson is a mother, professor and Chair of the Sociology Department, Vancouver Island University. Her research and teaching focuses on gender and familial relations, mothering, mother-work and the sociology of home. Recently she co-edited Sociology of Home: Belonging, Community and Place in the Canadian Context (2016) published by CSPI.

Joseph (Joey) Moore is an instructor of Sociology at Douglas College in New Westminster, BC. He holds a Ph.D from McMaster University and is a co-editor of the recently published Sociology of Home (CSPI 2016). His current interests include urban sociology, homemaking in public spaces and labour and environmental movements.

Marie Pospíšilová is a researcher assistant at the Czech Social Science Data Archive, Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, and a doctoral student of Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Charles University in Prague. She is interested in gender and entrepreneurship and work-life balance.

Marissa Cisneros is a sociology doctoral student at Texas A & M University focusing on critical approaches to race, class, and gender in the food industry. A first generation nontraditional Latin@, I recently began to interrogate the unique Southside of San Antonio Latinx community’s structural and cultural background with the use of autoethnography and narrative analysis.

Nancy Jurik is a Professor Emerita of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University. Her interests focus on gender, occupations, work organizations, and entrepreneurship. She is the author of Bootstrap Dreams: U.S. Microenterprise Development in an Era of Welfare Reform (Cornell University Press).

Rebecca Hudson Breen is an Assistant Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of Alberta, and a practicing therapist. Her research interests include the career-life development of mothers, and mother entrepreneurs more specifically, as well as the intersections of addictions recovery and career/work.

Silvia L. Vilches [She] is an Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University, Alabama, and an Extension Specialist for Early Childhood. She is interested in gender and family issues, and her work often involves studying community capacity development, especially with impoverished communities. She has participated in Women on the EDGE (WEDGE), contributed to Canadian Public Policy for Women, and written on Dreaming a Way Out, on the lives of lone mothers who receive public support.