Based on interviews with British stepmothers, this book uses a feminist sociological lens to reimagine their roles and practices. Combining firsthand accounts, it explores stepfamily dynamics and how stepmothers navigate them, offering new insights into gendered and social structures in contemporary stepfamilies.

Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton is Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Stavanger.

1. Introduction: 'Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...'

2. Theorising Stepmothers

3. Stepmothers and Stepfamilies in European Histories and Family Law(s)

4. Reimagining Stepmothers, Stepmotherhoods and Stepmotherings

5. Stepmothers' Kinwork In/for Wider and Multigenerational Stepfamily

6. Unorthodox Ways of Doing Stepfamily

7. Conclusion: Stepmothers Reimagined