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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"intensive mothering"”.
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Intensive Mothering Attitudes and Children's Executive Function: The Role of Parenting Stress
Intensive mothering (IM) is increasingly being recognized as a dominant parenting discourse. IM, conceptualized as hyper-parenting ideals that place pressure on mothers to cultivate children's cognitive development, has also been demonstrated to have consequences for mothers' mental wellbeing. On …
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Negotiating Gender Identity, Motherhood and Consumption: Examining the Experiences of South Asian Women in the UK
… are intertwined with the dominant norms of good mothering that pervade many cultures, known as intensive mothering. To fulfil the norms of intensive mothering, mothers are expected to consume appropriately and devote intense amounts of effort to ensuring their child’s development, both during the …
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Áhrif samfélagsmiðla á móðurhlutverkið: Ofur-mömmur á Instagram
… var við að skoða hvort að áköf mæðrun (e. intensive mothering) eða nýja mæðrahyggjan (e. the new momism) endurspegluðu upplifun mæðranna af samfélagsmiðlum. Þau hugtök vísa til þess að mæður eigi að vera fullkomnar þegar kemur að öllu sem tengist barnauppeldi og umönnun þeirra. Niðurstöður …
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#LeadingMamas: A Visual Ethnography
… women struggle to meet the expectations of intensive mothering (Hays 1996). The study also reveals an associated struggle with the expectations of what we call intensive leadership. Leadership and mothering identities are not separate from one other, but rather integrated in the everyday …
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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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Perceptions Of Parental Success: Implications For Family-To-Work Conflict And Family-To-Work Enhancement
… pressures entailed in the prevailing ideology of intensive mothering (Hays, 1996). As such, these worries and concerns might impact parents while they are working, with people's feelings about their parenting potentially shaping their experiences in the workplace. The purpose of this study, …
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Reclaiming Our Identities as Good Mothers: Narratives of Mothers with Child Welfare Experience
… and Western Society, reflects the notion of intensive mothering, whereby mothers are expected to manage their responsibilities as the primary caregiver of their children and household, while maintaining employment outside of the home. This notion, based on a middle-class, Eurocentric …
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‘A little bit patronising if I’m being honest’: working-class mothering and expert discourses.
… 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 working-class mothers. To do this, I draw on a critical discourse analysis of the BBC’s Tiny Happy People website to discern …
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Manufacturing Ideologies of the "Bad" Mother in Ontario Child Welfare
… biased. Further, prescriptive ideologies of intensive mothering, a concept coined by sociologist Sharon Hays, are found intertwined with notions of “good” mothering and normalized within the intersecting fields of mothering and child welfare. The landscape of “bad” mothers involved with child …
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Maternal Socialization and Anti-racism Mothering: A Grounded Theory
… how maternal socialization, within the current intensive mothering (IM) paradigm (Hays, 1996), informs the integration of anti-racism has yet to be considered. Guided by symbolic interactionism and feminist theories and methodology, this study functions to answer the following research …