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Sevón, Eija. "Narrating Ambivalence of Maternal Responsibility." Sociological Research Online 12, no. 2 (2007): 30–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1527.

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Early motherhood and caring for the infant involve a moral ambiguity that is related to the questions of responsibility and vulnerability. By means of the ethics of care, motherhood can be understood as belonging to the moral domain, as relational, and as linked with everyday social situations. The culturally dominant narratives of ‘good mothering’ easily naturalise and normatise maternal agency. This study illustrates the process of adopting responsibility for the infant and the moral ambivalence that is inscribed in early maternal care. The data consist of four interview sessions with each o

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Sigismondi, Stefania. "Adoptive Motherhood and Maternal Ambivalence: A Qualitative Exploration." Lens Journal 2, no. 3 (2024): 27–47. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13685637.

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Abstract Cultural narratives have long portrayed mothers as perfect, disregarding the intricate nature of motherhood. In reality, motherhood entails a vast array of positive and negative emotions. Maternal ambivalence, the coexistence of conflicting emotions in the mother-child relationship, is a prevalent yet often unacknowledged experience. Although research has investigated maternal ambivalence in biological mothers, the distinct experiences and challenges of adoptive mothers have been overlooked. Thus, this paper aims to explore how the unique experiences of adoptive motherhood influence m

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Wexler, Sharon. "MATERNAL AMBIVALENCE IN FEMALE PSYCHOTHERAPY RELATIONSHIPS." Journal of Social Work Practice 22, no. 2 (2008): 153–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650530802099759.

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Kiel, Elizabeth, Sydney M. Risley, and Kim L. Gratz. "Maternal Ambivalence about Overprotective Parenting during Early Childhood: Relations to Observed Parenting and Mother and Child Emotion-Based Characteristics." Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology 1, no. 2 (2025): 545–68. https://doi.org/10.55913/joep.v1i2.60.

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Overprotective parenting behavior warrants attention as a construct relevant to parents with young children. Little is known about parents’ own evaluations of, or attitudes about, these behaviors. Ambivalent attitudes, reflecting a mix of positive and negative evaluations, may reflect different motivations than purely positive or negative attitudes for engaging in overprotective parenting. Understanding parent attitudes about overprotection in early childhood could augment theory on the development of overprotective parenting and the parent-child dynamics relevant to children’s outcomes. In a

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Christie, George, and Anna Correia. "Maternal Ambivalence in a Group Analytic Setting." British Journal of Psychotherapy 3, no. 3 (1987): 205–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1987.tb00973.x.

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Wu, Kunpeng. "Maternal Ambivalence in Lucrecia Martels Salta Trilogy." Communications in Humanities Research 35, no. 1 (2024): 198–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/35/20240069.

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Lucrecia Martel is celebrated as one of Argentina's premier female directors, with her distinctive body of work gaining international recognition. This paper delves into Martels oeuvre, particularly her acclaimed Salta Trilogy: The Swamp (2001), The Holy Girl (2004), and The Headless Woman (2008). Through a close examination of these films, the paper explores Martels unique narrative style, which is notably characterized by a childlike perspective and an unconventional emphasis on sound. These elements play a crucial role in shaping her portrayal of motherhood within the trilogy. The analysis

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Krasas, Jackie. "The Maternal Tug: Ambivalence, Identity, and Agency." Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews 51, no. 6 (2022): 456–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00943061221129662a.

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Filippaki, Iro. "Between Amniotic and Semiotic: The Kristevan Maternal Body in Contemporary British Women’s Fiction." Theory Now. Journal of Literature, Critique, and Thought 6, no. 1 (2023): 108–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.30827/tn.v6i1.26185.

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From her seminal study Powers of Horror (1980) to her more recent conceptualization of maternal reliance (2014), the attendant ambivalence of motherhood has been both a recurring theme in Julia Kristeva’s writing, as well as her dominant method to demonstrate the affinities between bodily transformation and psychic development. At the same time, the post-war literary narration of motherhood’s “impossible choices”, as one critic has written (Harnett 2019), has left scattered but memorable marks on the contemporary British literary canon. Experimental as well as established British women writers

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Takševa, Tatjana. "Mother Love, Maternal Ambivalence, and the Possibility of Empowered Mothering." Hypatia 32, no. 1 (2017): 152–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12310.

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Dominant cultural ideologies of motherhood define the nature of mother love. Recent developments in motherhood studies, and the work of a small number of feminist philosophers and scholars of motherhood, have challenged the tenets of these ideologies by daring to speak the “unspeakable”: that mother love is often and for all mothers, whether consciously or not, permeated by powerful negative and conflicting emotions termed maternal ambivalence. In this essay, relying on recorded personal narratives by Bosnian women who are raising children born of wartime rape, as well as recent studies on emp

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Giovacchini, Peter L. "Mother Love/Mother Hate: The Power of Maternal Ambivalence." American Journal of Psychotherapy 51, no. 2 (1997): 300–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1997.51.2.300.

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Bernhardt, Eva, and Frances Goldscheider. "Ambivalence about Children in the Family Building Process in Sweden." Finnish Yearbook of Population Research 49 (December 31, 2014): 57–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.23979/fypr.48423.

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Sweden provides strong support for childbearing and parenthood, including generously subsidized medical, maternal, and child care, paid parental leave, and child allowances. In this context, attitudes towards parenthood are likely to have a particularly strong impact on the decision about whether and when to have children. We examine the links between first births and holding attitudes about children, not just of positive and negative attitudes, but also of ambivalence, namely those who both value children but also value the things that compete with parenthood for young adults’ time and other

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Hanft, Lila. "The Politics of Maternal Ambivalence in Christina Rossetti's Sing-Song." Victorian Literature and Culture 19 (March 1991): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300003697.

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RABIA, SHAMIM. "TRACING MATERNAL FILICIDE AS A MANIFESTATION OF MATERNAL AMBIVALENCE IN NAYOMI MUNAWEERA'S WHAT LIES BETWEEN US." International Journal of Academic Research for Humanities 4, no. 3 (2024): 36–41. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12652056.

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  The institution of Motherhood, as propagated by traditional philosophical discourse, has been challenged by feminist scholars during the last few decades. This research article carries out a thematic analysis of the selected work of contemporary fiction using Sarah LaChance Adams’ theory of Maternal Ambivalence. The research engages with Nayomi Munaweera’s What Lies Between Us, which depicts maternal filicide, analyzing how these narratives lead to the construction of cultural perceptions of motherhood, as well as the reigning societal expectations of mothers. By examining f

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Jang, Ha Eun, and Woon Kyung Lee. "The Effects of Parental Rejection Recalled by Undergraduate Students on Interpersonal Problems: The Mediating Role of Rejection Sensitivity and Ambivalence over Emotional Expression." Korean Journal of the Human Development 32, no. 2 (2025): 69–91. https://doi.org/10.15284/kjhd.2025.32.2.69.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between parental rejection recalled by undergraduate students, rejection sensitivity, two factors of ambivalence over emotional expression and interpersonal problem. Data were collected from 308 undergraduate students (138 males and 170 females) between the ages of 19 to 25 using a questionnaire method. The data were analyzed using path analysis to examine the pathways through which parental rejection, rejection sensitivity, and ambivalence over emotional expression affect interpersonal problems. The findings of this study are as follow

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Hausman, Bernice L. "Contamination and Contagion: Environmental Toxins, HIV/AIDS, and the Problem of the Maternal Body." Hypatia 21, no. 1 (2006): 137–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2006.tb00969.x.

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Contemporary global health crises that involve mothers necessarily invoke the varied cultural problematics of maternal embodiment. Examining breastfeeding in light of current concerns about maternal contagion and contamination, with special attention to HIV and environmental toxins, allows us to consider how ambivalence toward maternal embodiment affects the ways we address these health crises within which mothers figure so significantly.

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Asensi Soto, Àngels. "Madres y monstruos: imágenes de violencia y muerte en las canciones de cuna como expresión del trabajo reproductivo." Cuadernos de Música, Artes Visuales y Artes Escénicas 20, no. 2 (2025): 54–71. https://doi.org/10.11144/javeriana.mavae20-2.mitr.

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This article is part of a research project which examines the ambivalence between the vital and the lethal inherent to nursery rhymes and the maternal experience, focusing on the threatening and violent symbols of these melodies. Through the sociological analysis of discourse systems, which includes content analysis and critical discourse analysis (CDA), we explore threatening lullabies and violent images to investigate how these elements reflect the negative feelings of mothers and caretakers, transforming nursery rhymes in an historical, museological and literary work aroundreproductive work

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Bettaglio, Marina. "(Post)Feminist Maternal Chronicles and Their Discontents." Letras Femeninas 41, no. 1 (2015): 228–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44733780.

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Abstract This essay reads the conflict, ambivalence and guilt that pervade what I call "maternal chronicles"—a heterogenous set of autobiographical texts centering on the experience of mothering—as symptomatic of the postfeminist turn in Spanish society. While in literature, maternal narratives continue to be scarce (Freixas 2012), the last ten years have witnessed the emergence of new narrative forms, ranging from blogs to diaries to comics, that express their authors’ ambivalent feelings towards this "sacred" institution (Lucía Extebarria, Care Santos, Isabel García Zarza, Yolanda Saenz de T

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Wallace, Lee. "Three by Three: Lisa Cholodenko’s Attachment Trilogy." Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 34, no. 3 (2019): 97–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/02705346-7772399.

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Lisa Cholodenko’s three films High Art (US, 1998), Laurel Canyon (US, 2002), and The Kids Are All Right (US, 2010) all tell the same story: a sexual and emotional ingenue arrives in a tightly circumscribed social world that both resembles and departs from a conventional family. At its heart is an established couple whose seemingly secure erotic bond is marked by deep ambivalence. This bond is stretched beyond recognition as it bends to the presence of the sexual outsider, who is first incorporated into, then ejected from, the pseudofamilial world. Though irreparably altered, the established co

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Sander‐Staudt, Maureen. "Frontiers in Parenthood: Queer Mothering, Maternal Ambivalence, Adoption, and Reproductive Technology." Hypatia 31, no. 2 (2016): 460–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12231.

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Choguya, Naume Zorodzai. "Traditional Birth Attendants and Policy Ambivalence in Zimbabwe." Journal of Anthropology 2014 (May 7, 2014): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/750240.

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This paper analyses the importance of the services rendered by traditional birth attendants (TBAs) to pregnant women in Zimbabwe. It argues that, though an integral part of the health system, the ambivalence in terms of policy on the part of the government leaves them in a predicament. Sociocultural values as well as tradition imbue TBAs power and authority to manage pregnancies and assist in child deliveries. On the other hand, government policies expounded through the Ministry of Health (MoH) programs and policies appear to be relegating them to the fringes of healthcare provision. However,

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Vachhani, Sheena J. "Always different?: exploring the monstrous-feminine and maternal embodiment in organisation." Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 33, no. 7 (2014): 648–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/edi-05-2012-0047.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to problematise the notion of woman-as-monster and draws together a conceptual analysis of the monstrous-feminine and its relation to maternal and monstrous bodies including its implications for equality and inclusion in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach – Whilst exploring how female monsters are inextricably tied to their sexual difference, the author draws on social and psychoanalytic perspectives to suggest how such monstrosity is expressed through ambivalence to the maternal. The author analyses two “faces” of the monstrous-feminine in partic

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Røseth, Idun, and Rob Bongaardt. "“I Don’t Love My Baby?!”." Journal of Phenomenological Psychology 50, no. 1 (2019): 90–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341355.

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Abstract Many new mothers question the nature of their motherly love after birth. This affectionate relationship towards the infant is commonly called bonding in everyday speech, clinical practice and research. Bonding may not sufficiently describe the mother’s emotional response to the infant and does not capture the ambivalence and struggle to develop maternal affection of many women. This study aims to explore the phenomenon of disturbed maternal affection through the clinical case of one mother who experienced severe and prolonged disturbances. Two in-depth interviews led to a descriptive

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Buerger, Shelley. "The beak that grips: maternal indifference, ambivalence and the abject in The Babadook." Studies in Australasian Cinema 11, no. 1 (2017): 33–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17503175.2017.1308903.

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Galioto, Erica D. "Maternal ambivalence in the novel and film We Need to Talk About Kevin." Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society 24, no. 2 (2019): 132–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41282-019-00116-w.

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Mooney, Susan. "Women's Looking Relations After the Gaze: Maternal Ambivalence and Queerness inNotes on a Scandal." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 33, no. 6 (2016): 529–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10509208.2015.1089090.

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Podnieks, Elizabeth. "“I really need a mom right now”: Maternal Absence, Ambivalence, and Autonomy in Glee." Journal of Popular Culture 49, no. 4 (2016): 897–916. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12431.

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Greer, Amanda. "‘I’m not your mother!’: maternal ambivalence and the female investigator in contemporary crime television." New Review of Film and Television Studies 15, no. 3 (2017): 327–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2017.1335588.

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Heenan, Colleen. "Torn in Two: The Experience of Maternal Ambivalence, Rozsika Parker, (Virago Press, 1995, ??12.99)." Changes 15, no. 4 (1997): 290–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1234-980x(199711)15:4<290::aid-cha4224>3.0.co;2-b.

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Shelton, Joy Lynn E., Yvonne Muirhead, and Kathleen E. Canning. "Ambivalence toward mothers who kill: An examination of 45 U.S. cases of maternal neonaticide." Behavioral Sciences & the Law 28, no. 6 (2010): 812–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.937.

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Young, Felicie, Laurie Twells, Rhonda Joy, Leigh Anne Newhook, Janet Murphy Goodridge, and Lorraine Burrage. "Infant Feeding in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: Perceptions and Experiences of Maternal Grandmothers." Journal of Perinatal Education 25, no. 4 (2016): 223–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1058-1243.25.4.223.

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ABSTRACTThe purpose of this study was to examine the primary factors that influenced grandmothers’ choices of infant feeding and to explore the role that grandmothers feel they played in their daughters’ choices about infant feeding. Twenty-two maternal grandmothers who bottle fed their children and whose daughters also bottle fed their babies were recruited to participate in 4 focus groups and/or 2 interviews. Using the constant comparative method of data analysis, 3 themes emerged that described how grandmothers felt about their infant feeding experiences: “powerlessness,” “modesty,” and “am

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Sechi, Cristina, Laura Elvira Prino, Luca Rollé, Loredana Lucarelli, and Laura Vismara. "Maternal Attachment Representations during Pregnancy, Perinatal Maternal Depression, and Parenting Stress: Relations to Child’s Attachment." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 1 (2021): 69. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010069.

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Background: This paper aimed to explore the associations between maternal representations of attachment evaluated during pregnancy, pre and postnatal maternal depression, parenting stress and child’s attachment at 15 months after childbirth. Methods: Mothers (n = 71), and their infants participated in a longitudinal study of maternal attachment, pre and postnatal depression, parenting stress and child attachment. Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was conducted between 24 and 26 weeks of pregnancy (Time 1), depression was assessed using the Edinburgh Perinatal Depression Scale (EPDS) (at Time 1

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Knafo, Hannah. "Attachment-informed interventions with the perinatal population." Attachment: New Directions in Psychotherapy and Relational Psychoanalysis 15, no. 2 (2021): 214–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/att.v15n2.2021.214.

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With growing attention being paid to perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) in both medical and mental health settings, there is a need for further elaboration on meaningful and impactful treatments with this population. This article outlines some of the unique stressors and psychological states that come with pregnancy and parenting a newborn and infant. The concepts and experiences discussed include: primary maternal preoccupation (Winnicott, 1956), parental ambivalence, major changes to the physical body, and reorganisation of attachment representations and current family dynamics. Cl

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Koletzko, Svenja H., Pearl La Marca-Ghaemmaghami, and Veronika Brandstätter. "Mixed Expectations: Effects of Goal Ambivalence during Pregnancy on Maternal Well-Being, Stress, and Coping." Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being 7, no. 3 (2015): 249–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12047.

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Kobilj Cuic, Sanja. "Rompere il tabù: Il tema dell’abbandono dei figli in Una donna di Sibilla Aleramo e La filgia oscura di Elena Ferrante." RAUDEM. Revista de Estudios de las Mujeres 3 (May 23, 2017): 252. http://dx.doi.org/10.25115/raudem.v3i0.630.

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Riassunto: Questo articolo esamina la maternità rappresentata in due testi, Una donna di Sibilla Aleramo e La figlia osura di Elena Ferrante. L’accento è sul tema dell’ambivalenza materna e sul tema dell’abbandono dei figli da parte delle madri considerato tuttora uno dei tabù nella società e nella letteratura italiane. Attraverso l’analisi di questi due romanzi, si cerca di capire quali siano i motivi emotivi e sociali che portano le madri protagoniste a cercare i propri spazi. Il metodo teorico si basa sul lavoro del gruppo Diotima sull’ambivalenza della maternità. Breaking the Taboo: The Th

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Klein, Anne-Louise Karstoft, Anne-Lisbeth Nyvang, and Christina Prinds. "“Mange af de ting, jeg glæder mig til, er også mange af de ting, der skræmmer mig”." Tidsskrift for Professionsstudier 20, no. 38 (2024): 16–25. https://doi.org/10.7146/tfp.v20i38.152182.

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This qualitative study delves into the reflections of eight Danish midwifery students regarding their profession. Despite midwives' pivotal role in maternal care, little attention has been given to understanding the reflections of those preparing to enter this profession. The findings revealed a nuanced interplay of ambivalence, worry, doubt, excitement, and expectations that shaped students' perceptions. Amidst students' apprehensions were also thoughts about resilience. Engaging in dialogue with other newly educated midwives was perceived as a valuable resource by participants.

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Lydenberg, Robin. "Freud's Uncanny Narratives." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 112, no. 5 (1997): 1072–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463484.

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Critics who work at the intersection of psychoanalysis and narratology frequently examine Freud's “The Uncanny” (“Das Unheimliche”). A close reading of the anecdotes interpolated in Freud's essay suggests that while narrative is often motivated by an effort to contain charged material, something always escapes that control, threatening to proliferate without stopping. The dual containing and dispersing effect of narrative is reflected in Freud's doubling of himself as narrator and protagonist; in his ambivalence toward women, the maternal, and creativity; and in his attraction and resistance t

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Ishab, Mishra. "Stress, Anxiety and Ambivalence: Reading Maternal Experiences and PPD in Dancing on The Edge of Sanity." International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies 5, no. 1 (2023): 34–38. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7638031.

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During 1960’s and 1970’s a sharp increase in the representation of motherhood experience was seen in both popular and academic literature. <em>M</em><em>otherhood memoirs </em>or <em>mommy memoirs,</em> or, even shorter, <em>momoirs</em> emerged to accommodate the varied aspects of mothering and motherhood experiences. These writings contest the popular notion that motherhood is a joyful and fulfilling experience by foregrounding the implicit aspect, i.e., the <em>dark side</em> of motherhood demonstrating mothers’ pain and suffering. Instead of highlighting the glorified sid

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Wierzchowska, Justyna. "Love, Attachment, and Effacement." International Journal of English Studies 18, no. 2 (2018): 19–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2018/2/316831.

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This article examines seventeen children poems by Sylvia Plath written in the years 1960-63, in relation to the poetics of romantic love. Drawing on motherhood studies (Klein, 1975; O’Reilly, 2010; Rich, 1976; Winnicott, 1956, 1965, 1967), the maternal shift in psychoanalysis (see Bueskens, 2014: 3-6), and attachment theory (Bowlby, 1950, 1969, 1988), it reads love as a continuous human disposition, informed by one’s attachment history, and realized at different stages of one’s life (Hazan & Shaver, 1987). It specifically refers to Daniel Stern’s and Anthony Giddens’s largely overlapping c

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Jeon, Sesong, and Katie Walker. "The Role of Maternal Grandmothers’ Childcare Provision for Korean Working Adult Daughters." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 21 (2022): 14226. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192114226.

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Despite the Korean government’s investment in childcare facilities for dual-earner households, maternal grandmothers are increasingly taking on the responsibility of caring for their grandchildren. This trend is examined in the current research. While many studies have been conducted on grandparents’ experiences providing childcare for their grandchildren, significantly less research has been conducted on adult daughters’ experiences with their mothers’ childcare provision. This study utilized the concepts of intergenerational solidarity and a life-course approach to understand the experiences

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Hauser, Orlee. "Pushing Daddy Away? A Qualitative Study of Maternal Gatekeeping." Qualitative Sociology Review 8, no. 1 (2012): 34–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.8.1.03.

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There is a great deal of literature regarding the differences between motherhood and fatherhood. The literature suggests that parenthood is deeply gendered and takes on different meanings for men and for women. This paper examines parenthood from an angle not typically addressed in feminist discussion. Missing from recent scholarship is any in-depth examination of the role that women may play in limiting the involvement of their male partners. What part do women play in the maintenance of traditional parenting roles? This paper, based on a series of interviews with parents of young children as

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Agrati, Daniella, Alonso Fernández-Guasti, Marcela Ferreño, and Annabel Ferreira. "Coexpression of sexual behavior and maternal aggression: The ambivalence of sexually active mother rats toward male intruders." Behavioral Neuroscience 125, no. 3 (2011): 446–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0023085.

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Sommer, Tine. "“I Take Everything Back That I Said”: Ambivalence and Motherhood in Mildred Pierce." American Studies in Scandinavia 51, no. 2 (2019): 101–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v51i2.5977.

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This article discusses motherhood in James M. Cain’s Mildred Pierce (1941). It argues that academic criticism so far has neglected the important contribution Cain’s text makes to debates concerning motherhood norms in the post-Depression years. The article takes as its central concern the fraught relationship between Mildred and her daughter, Veda. Building on Sianne Ngai’s theory of “ugly feelings,” the article claims that Mildred’s ambivalent emotional responses to her daughter reveal how social norms obstruct mothers’ agency. Rather than categorically rejecting Veda’s bad behavior, Mildred’

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Shamim, Rabia, and Shaheena Ayub Bhatti. "An Ambivalent Mother is an Abusive Mother: A Study of Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child." Global Sociological Review 10, no. 1 (2025): 47–58. https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2025(x-i).05.

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This research article carries out a thematic analysis of the selected work of contemporary fiction using Sarah LaChance Adams’ theory of Maternal Ambivalence. The research engages with Toni Morrison’s God Help The Child, which depicts an abusive relationship between mother and child, analyzing how narratives like this negotiate the construction of cultural perceptions of motherhood, as well as the reigning societal expectations of mothers. By examining fictional accounts, the paper explores the symbolic and metaphorical representations of abuse between mother and child in literature, uncoverin

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Choe, Myeong Ae, and Jeong Shin An. "Study of the Social Wellbeing of Working Mothers of Preschool Children." Family and Environment Research 59, no. 3 (2021): 297–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2021.022.

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This study examined the social wellbeing of working mothers of preschool children with the aim of identifying relationships between social wellbeing and influencing factors, focusing on the individual, relationship, and work environment of the mothers. Data on 390 working mothers were used for this study. The data were analyzed using the SPSS 18.0 program and descriptive statistics. Pearson’s correlation analyses and hierarchical regression analyses were performed. The results show that social wellbeing has significantly positive correlations with education, monthly household income, number of

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Foster, Verna A. "Mother Medea and Her Children: Maternal Ambivalence in the Medean Plays of Marina Carr, Cherríe Moraga, and Rachel Cusk." Comparative Drama 55, no. 1 (2021): 83–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cdr.2021.0003.

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Lee, Young Hwa, Yeon Kyung Chee, and Hyun-Sim Doh. "The Effects of Maternal Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness and Mother-Adolescent Communication on Depression in Adolescent Boys and Girls." Korean Journal of Child Studies 33, no. 6 (2012): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5723/kjcs.2012.33.6.149.

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Suárez, Larissa de Araújo Batista, Milena Nunes Alves De Sousa, and Marcus Túlio Caldas. "Maternal Loss: An Analysis of Types of Death and Grief Mediators." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 18, no. 4 (2024): e04729. http://dx.doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v18n4-065.

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Objective: To understand maternal grief by establishing an analysis between the types of death and the mediators of grief.  Methodology: Field research was carried out with a qualitative approach, with the participation of mothers who lost their children due to premature death (sudden/natural or violent/tragic) and who participate in the mutual help group “Mothers of Pieta”, in Patos, Paraíba. The interviews were reflected in the light of Bardin's content analysis method, the organization of data and information was done through the Mindomo 4.5.4 software, in the premium version, f

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An, Jeong Shin, and Myeong-ae Choe. "The Effects of Maternal Separation Anxiety on Ambivalence and Psychological Well-being of Mothers Living with Dependent Unmarried Adult Children." Korean Journal of Community Living Science 30, no. 1 (2019): 71–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.7856/kjcls.2019.30.1.71.

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Menzel, Annie. "“Awful Gladness”: The Dual Political Rhetorics of Du Bois’s “Of the Passing of the First-Born”." Political Theory 47, no. 1 (2018): 32–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591718757411.

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W.E.B. Du Bois’s elegy for his infant son, “Of the Passing of the First-Born,” in The Souls of Black Folk, has received relatively scant attention from political theorists. Yet it illuminates crucial developments in Du Bois’s political thought. It memorializes a tragedy central to his turn from scientific facts to rhetorical appeals to emotion. Its rhetoric also exemplifies a broader tension in his writings, between masculinist and elitist commitments and more insurrectionary impulses. In its normalizing rhetorical mode, which dominates, the elegy depicts an idealized patriarchal bourgeois hou

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Dietz, Morgan Richardson. "The Politics of Breastfeeding in Northeast Indian Literature." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 9, no. 3 (2022): 317–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2022.16.

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AbstractBreastfeeding, both in its literal consequences on a woman’s body and its symbolic associations with attachment, highlights the simultaneously powerful yet servile position of the maternal figure. I trace this ambivalence in Mahasweta Devi’s story “Breast-Giver,” exploring women’s literal and metaphorical hungers, as well as the hunger their children experience, arguing that breastfeeding often serves as a means of showcasing a woman’s physical limitation based on her familial status as “feeder.” However, I also argue for a profoundly embodied version of the breastfeeding trope, one th

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