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Impossible motherhood: From the desire for motherhood to non-motherhood
Feminismo/s, 2023 This article proposes to explore the biographic accounts and everyday experiences of cisgender women who, for various reasons and biopsychosocial conditions, are not mothers.
Mercedes Bogino Larrambebere
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Medical Law Review, 2022 Abstract In English law, legal motherhood is allocated to the person who gestated. However, we argue that gestation—legally denoted as the “natural” source of parenting obligations—is often constructed as mothering, rather than the precursor to it.
Zaina Mahmoud, Elizabeth Chloe Romanis
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Maternal and professional identity change during the transition to motherhood [PDF]
, 2013 Becoming a mother derails many women’s chances for career progression. One reason for this is that women leave organisations when they become mothers, or reduce their working hours. Another reason is that people within the organisation start to view them
Kutzer, Roxanne
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Lone Motherhood in Historical Context: Changing Elements in Narrative Identity [PDF]
, 2004 This paper examines lone motherhood through the lens of narrative identity. The data consists of the written life stories of seventeen Finnish lone mothers.
May, Vanessa
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Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology [PDF]
, 2023 This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the ...
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Schizophrenia and motherhood [PDF]
Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2019 The primary aim of this study was to analyze the impact of schizophrenic disorders on pregnancy outcomes. The secondary aim was to briefly analyze the potential role of antipsychotic treatment on influencing pregnancy outcomes in expectant mothers with schizophrenia. We searched the MEDLINE, PsycINFO, and Science.gov databases for articles published in
Salvatore Gentile, Maria Luigia Fusco
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A Critical Discursive Analysis of ‘Older’ Motherhood [PDF]
Over the past few decades the number of ʻolder mothersʼ – women who begin their families at age 35 or over, has markedly increased. Concerns about rising numbers of ʻolder mothersʼ have been expressed by health professionals, who have warned of the risks
Budds, Kirsty
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, 2019 Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way ...
Schumann, Eva, +3 more
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Non-motherhood and motherhood in sport: Entangled relations of care
, 2022 In this chapter, we explore the relations of care that are entangled with the material-discursive relations of motherhood, women, and sport. Through our feminist new materialist approach, we explore how motherhood is valorised, and entangled with ...
O’Brien, W, Pavlidis, A
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Concept analysis of transition to motherhood: a methodological study [PDF]
Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing, 2022 Purpose Although the term “transition to motherhood” is commonly used in research, the concept is not clear. This study, hence, was conducted to clarify the concept of “transition to motherhood.” Methods The concept analysis framework developed by Walker
Woon Young Hwang +2 more
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