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Mothering Performance [PDF]

, 2023
Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.

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Feeling Pressure to Be a Perfect Mother Relates to Parental Burnout and Career Ambitions

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Background and aims: Intensive mothering norms prescribe women to be perfect mothers. Recent research has shown that women’s experiences of pressure toward perfect parenting are related to higher levels of guilt and stress.
Loes Meeussen, Loes Meeussen, Colette Van Laar   +2 more
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Mödrar som mördar

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Theme: Motherhood and Mothering. Ill. ©Stina Wirsén Mothers That Murder: The Myling, Baby Farmers, and Mothering In contemporary Swedish children’s literature, mylings and baby farmers make frequent appearances.
Peter Kostenniemi
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Book Review for Petra Bueskens (ed.) Mothering & Psychoanalysis. Clinical, Sociological and Feminist Perspectives

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia, 2015
Between the routines and rituals of mothering I seek out Petra Bueskens’ collection of essays, reaching for its enigmatic cover that features a woman draped in newspaper text, bearing one breast, holding a glass of water in one hand and a leaf in the ...
Amanda de Clifford
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From “Imperial Maternalism” to “Matri-centrism:” Mothering Ethics in Christian Women’s Voluntarism in Kenya

African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR), 2019
In this article I review some contributions to “mothering ethics” in African feminist religious studies and African gender theory, to examine whether recent and historical practices in Kenyan Christian women’s voluntarism constitute forms of ethical ...
Eleanor Tiplady Higgs
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Mothering – a mode of protecting rather than parenting in the aftermath of post separation family violence in Australia [PDF]

, 2020
The focus of this qualitative study was on separated mother’s (N = 36) lived experiences of mothering in the context of post separation family violence and the Australian family law system.
Millear, Prudence, Francia, Leanne, Sharman, Rachael   +2 more
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”När vi rider tillsammans känns hon mer som en kompis än som en mamma”

Barnboken: Tidskrift för Barnlitteraturforskning
Theme: Motherhood and Mothering. Ill. ©Stina Wirsén ”When We Ride Together, She’s More like a Friend than a Mum”: Mothering Variations in Three Horse Story Series by Pia Hagmar This article analyzes how the horse story setting problematizes ...
Helen Asklund, Lena Manderstedt, Ann-Sofie Persson   +2 more
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Let's Talk: African Caribbean Women, Mothering Motherhood, and Well-Being

Frontiers in Sociology, 2020
In the UK, African Caribbean women's experiences of mothering and motherhood are often studied in isolation from how “race” structures and shapes their lives and everyday health and well-being.
Geraldine Brown
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What we talk about when we talk about Mothering: Social Construction of Mothering in Tehran [PDF]

مطالعات اجتماعی روان‌شناختی زنان, 2020
Although mothering is widely believed to be a biological and natural stage of women's lives, feminism tells us that not all women have the same experience of mothering. They perceive and act upon it, depending on different cultural contexts.
Shiva Alinaghian, Mariam Rafat jah, AbuAli Vedadhir   +2 more
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“(Un)Being a Mother” Media Representation of Motherhood and Female Identity

Journalism and Media
This research examines the portrayal of (non)motherhood in television series from 2016 to 2022. The title, “(Un)being a Mother”, was deliberately chosen for its polysemic nature, facilitating an exploration of the complexities of motherhood, its absence,
Silvia Pezzoli, Marina Brancato
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