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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"good mother"”.
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The 'good mother syndrome' and playgroup: The lived experience of a group of mothers
… experience parenting and playgroup. The good mother syndrome refers to the social, historical and cultural determination of how mothers are supposed to act. It defines what a good mother is supposed to be, subject to political, cultural and economic influences. Further, the good mother …
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The Public Sharing And Private Consumption Of Celebrity Gossip Through The Motherhood Role
… study focused on examining the experiences of mothers as they publicly share and privately consume celebrity gossip to better understand celebrity gossip's functions. Motherhood is a demanding role filled with uncertainty and information seeking, as mothers seek to understand what constitutes a …
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Breastfeeding as foodwork in the workplace among black, low-income women in South Africa
… in-depth interviews with 33 black low-income mothers in Cape Town, South Africa, this study gives meaning to the labour of foodwork that these mothers perform. The data were analysed through an intersectional analytic lens to understand how race, class, and gender shape foodwork experiences. …
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Η ΜΟΡΦΗ ΤΟΥ ΗΡΩΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΤΡΙΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΒΕΝΕΖΗ. ("ΤΟ ΝΟ 31328", ΓΑΛΗΝΗ ΑΙΟΛΙΚΗ ΓΗ)
… OF VENEZIS; DEFINITION OF THE IMAGE OF THE GOOD-MOTHER, GOOD NATURE AND THE MOTHERLAND ACCORDING TO THE MEANINGATTRIBUTED TO THOSE TERMS BY MELANIE KLEIN. IDENTIFICATION OF THE UNIFICATION OF METAPHOR AND TRANSFORMATION OF NAMES IN THE DREAM PROCESS; EQUIVALENT TO THECONCENTRATION AND …
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Constructions of adoptive and foster mothering : a discourse analysis
… with little consideration given to parents. Mothering adopted and foster children in South Africa is a specifically under-researched area. This research contributes within this field, specifically, by exploring how women who have adopted and/or who foster children construct mothering and how …
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Negotiating normativities: Counter narratives of lesbian queer world making in Cape Town
… and extends phallocentric culture. Lesbian motherhood as a site of QWM reveals the participants' negotiations, conflict, stress and agency in relation to the 'good mother' discourse that undergirds mothering practices in South Africa. Their counter narratives reveal how they simultaneously …
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Moms are survivors, because our kids are more ours': narratives of middle-class, white mothers in Cape Town
… focuses on how white, middle class South African mothers, living within a 60-kilometre radius of Cape Town's Central Business District, juggle their childcare and work responsibilities. Through use of multi-sited ethnography, I was able to enter the lives of ten white, middle-class South African …
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Postpartum Depression and the Meaning of Motherhood: Exploring the Role of Contrast and Expectations
… depression affects between 10 - 15% of all mothers within the first year after giving birth (Dietz, 2007; Epperson, 1999). Studies that have focused on women's experiences of postpartum depression have found similar in experience of contrast between women's expectations of motherhood, and …
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The college student as mother : a phenomenological examination of community college student experiences
… used a purposive/ snowball sample of low-SES mothers who were making satisfactory progress toward a degree. Participants were screened using the following inclusion criteria: enrolled at least half-time, degree-seeking, minimum 2.5 G.P.A., Pell eligible and first-generation, had one or more …
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‘A little bit patronising if I’m being honest’: working-class mothering and expert discourses.
… for the last century, positioning working-class mothers as deficient and requiring correction. Little is known about how these discourses impact and shape working-class mothering. I explore how intensive parenting and attendant policy and dominant discourses impact on the day-to-day lives of …
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This is our life, this is our child: mothers dancing in the margins of disability
This study examines the narratives of 15 mothers who each have (or had) a child who is medically, educationally and socio-culturally constituted as having a disability. This research interrogates the mothers’ narratives to consider motherhood from the discursive multiple position/ings of the …
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Labour and birth in water: women’s narratives
… these were constructed to reflect transitions to motherhood and changes in identity. This study sought to answer the question: What do women’s stories of waterbirth reveal about a woman’s self and social identity around birth?<br/><br/>A feminist framework guided the research design adopting a …
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Life pathways and narratives of young women who have offended and participated in restorative justice
… in three ways, as “fighters,” “survivors,” or “good girls.” Second, the young women described their own offending to the interviewer through “morality tales,” in which they neutralized offending, for example, as a form of play or a way to be a good mother. Finally, young women’s narratives of …
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Mothers' lived experiences of caring for their child with HIV-related neurodevelopmental disorder/s
… various measures, such as the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme, have been put in place to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, there are still many cases of children, in Zimbabwe, being born infected with HIV. Children born to HIV parents are reported to be at risk of …
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A deeper kind of nothing
… and imagined subjugation experienced by 'the good child’, 'the good wife’ and 'the good mother’: the child who felt shame for causing a fuss over her struggle to breathe and the wife who walked on eggshells.
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(Re)storying postpartum psychosis: a critical narrative analysis of women’s stories of postnatal distress
… medicalised self’; ‘a transformed self’ and ‘the good mother’. Tensions around agency and disempowerment were also explored in the context of identity work. Five main themes were noted across participants’ narratives: ‘explanatory frameworks’; ‘power’; ‘the multidimensional nature of family …
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The motherhood myth: unrealistic expectations
… explores the gap between women’s expectations of motherhood before they have children and the reality of their lives as mothers, a phenomenon that I call the Motherhood Myth. My study sheds light on how this Motherhood Myth takes shape, how it is transmitted and reinforced by culture and …
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Forced Migration and Mothering Kiwisitos: Young Colombian Women Navigating Motherhood in New Zealand.
… the study was to learn from the young Colombian mothers in order to inform and improve the resettlement experiences of future young mothers from refugee backgrounds. Included in the thesis is a reflexive analysis that situates my Colombian identity and the fact that I was also pregnant during my …
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Maternal Transgressions in Contemporary Cinema
… violently divides the maternal figure into ‘good mother’ versus ‘bad mother’, is a dialectical binary that operates structurally within the precarious worlds these films depict. Klein’s psychic model is a punitive framework, quick to categorize and punish different behaviours, just as modern …
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Questioning and Disrupting Narratives of Motherhood and Leadership: The Experiences of Deans, Presidents, and Other California Community College Mother-Leaders
… United States, women are more likely to become mothers today than they were 10 years ago. Nationally, 86% of women become mothers, and, in particular, the rates of motherhood for college educated women have increased from 65% to 80% over the last two decades. In California community colleges …
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