Dissertations / Theses: 'Motherhood and feminism'

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Ward, Elizabeth. "Feminism, New Labour and lone motherhood." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439211.

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Cragg, Caitlin M. "An examination of maternal instinct and modern motherhood: reconciling Feminism and Darwinism." Thesis, Boston University, 2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27627.

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Banks, Hannah. "Young mothers speak out: Young Pākehā women's experiences of motherhood." The University of Waikato, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2519.

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Early motherhood is a much debated and highly contentious topic. This research aimed to explore young Pākehā women's experiences of motherhood using a feminist qualitative framework. Twelve women, six current young mothers and six former young mothers, were interviewed via focus groups and individual interviews. The analysis revealed that Pākehā culture constructs young mothers as problematic because they challenge the 'traditional' family dominant in Pākehā culture. By having children prior to, rather than after, workforce participation and achieving economic independence, young mothers challenge the prescribed life trajectory for Pākehā women. The women in this study discussed both the positive aspects and the challenges they faced as young mothers. In contrast to common public perceptions and media representations of early motherhood as negative, motherhood positively transformed the women's lives. This was discussed in terms of ceasing destructive activities and gaining motivation to return to education. The young mothers in this study had flexible parenting styles, which allowed them freedom from Pākehā cultural pressure to 'do motherhood' in a particular way. As young mothers, the women had high energy levels and anticipated early future freedom from childcare duties to pursue their dreams. Challenges discussed by the women included incorporating unanticipated early motherhood into long-held life goals, feeling exhausted, having a lack of time for themselves and having too little support. Financial hardship, poverty, judgment and stigma surfaced as major challenges which affected all areas of the women's lives. However, the women also resisted this discrimination by using a range of strategies, which positions them as women with agency, challenging their representation within literature as passive victims. Young women will not use services where they perceive they will be judged for being who they are. As levels of support appear to determine how young women experience motherhood, services have a vital role to play in supporting young mothers. The findings of this study highlighted the complex and contradictory nature of the young mothers' stories, presenting a challenge to simple and stereotypical negative discourses of early motherhood.

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Liston-Beck, Annalycia R. "Mobilizing Motherhood: The Symbolic Politics of Motherhood in Transcultural Perspective." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524742980880805.

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Black, Amy. "The politics of motherhood in post-war Britain, feminism, socialism and the Labour Party." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0012/MQ36345.pdf.

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Davis, Lisa A. "Feminism and The Women of Stars Hollow: The Gilmore Girls." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1276797081.

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McIntyre, Heather Dawn. "Mystical Motherhood: Blending Ecstatic Religious Experience with Feminist Discourse in Appalachian Fiction." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1276621461.

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Weeda-Zuidersma, Jeannette. "Keeping mum : representations of motherhood in contemporary Australian literature - a fictocritical exploration." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2007. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2007.0054.

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[Truncated abstract] This thesis argues that the non-representation and under-representation of mothering in contemporary Australian literature reflects a much wider cultural practice of silencing the mother-as-subject position and female experiences as a whole. The thesis encourages women writers to pay more attention to the subjective experiences of mothering, so that women’s writing, in particular writing on those aspects of women’s lives that are silenced, of which motherhood is one, can begin to refigure motherhood discourses. This thesis examines mother-as-subject from three perspectives: mothering as a corporeal experience, mothering as a psychological experience, and the articulations and silences of mothering-as-subject. It engages with feminist, postmodern and fictocritical theories in its discussion of motherhood as a discourse through these perspectives. In particular, the thesis employs the theoretical works of postmodern feminists Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva in this discussion . . . A fictional narrative also runs through the critical discussion on motherhood. This narrative, Catherine’s Story, gives a personal and immediate voice to the mother-as-subject perspective. In keeping with the nature of fictocriticism, strict textual boundaries between criticism and fiction are blurred. The two modes of writing interact and in the process inform and critique each other.

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Merley, Hill Alexandra. "Maternal drag identity, motherhood, and performativity in the works of Julia Franck /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3359140/.

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Hayt, Anthony. "Remade in Our Image: Gender, Melodrama, and Conservatism in Post-9/11 Slasher Remakes." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17925.

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This project details the ways in which the classic slasher films of the 1970s, and their post-9/11 remakes, are representative of the individual and complex world views out of which each set of films were borne. The remakes manipulate gender roles including those of the Final Girl and the mother; genre conventions, including increases in domestic melodrama and pathos; production models, including the use of star actors, directors, and producers; sexuality and presentation of the sexualized female body; and race, especially in fine differences between white and non-white characters. In doing so, the post-9/11 films reveal a conservative cultural climate that strives to show recovery of the nuclear family unit after trauma, unlike the originals which are more nihilistic in tone and portray families as either absent or deeply flawed and unrecoverable.

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Miller, Jeanette Leigh. "Beat Women: The Thunder Before the Storm-An Analysis of Feminism's Bridge Generation." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1486.

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The 1950s saw the height of the Beat literature movement. Within this movement moved a cohort of women who helped revolutionize gender relations in the early Cold War era, leading to the emergence of the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s. By questioning social gender norms and harnessing their artistic, sexual, and economic autonomy, Beat women built lives of lived art outside proscribed social norms building the base for a new era in gender relations.

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Gillespie, Bronwen. "Much more than malnutrition : motherhood and the state in the Peruvian Andes." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65804/.

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This thesis draws on women's lived experience as recipients of state programmes and services aimed at poor mothers to explore contradictions in processes of development and social inclusion. Women's ambivalent responses to these programmes raise important questions, first of all, about being the targeted object and what ‘for poor mothers' means to those so categorised, and secondly, about the act of targeting, and how it can serve both as a constraint and as a resource. State concern with chronic child malnutrition serves as the entrance point to my research, carried out in rural Ayacucho, Peru, from October 2012 to November 2013. This project was motivated by concerns regarding the medicalisation of food scarcity, as malnutrition, and how this approach spread to further interventions by the state to shape parenting in the rural Andes. I examine three programmes: (1.) mothers' interactions with the local public health centre, which is at the forefront of the state's effort to reduce chronic child malnutrition, (2.) the Juntos (‘Together') cash transfer programme, under which families receive small bi-monthly payments conditional on children's school attendance and health centre check-ups, and (3.) the Cuna Mas (‘Cradle Plus') programme, which involves home visits to promote mother-child interaction and play. My research builds on the concepts of ‘governmentality' and ‘reproductive governance' by examining how women in their roles as mothers are sought out for the development of the nation, and urged to act along state-recommended lines. By looking at their reactions to being targeted, I explore how they make use of what is on offer and manage the boundaries of their inclusion. I show that considerations of agency are central to debates on citizenship and inclusion, as well as to understanding the implications of medicalisation.

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Hoogen, Siri Rebecca. "Contexts of choice: Personal constructs of motherhood in women's abortion decisions." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1292364393.

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Hillenbrand, Julia [Verfasser]. "Motherhood and Self-Realization in the Four Waves of American Feminism and Joyce Carol Oates's Recent Fiction / Julia Hillenbrand." Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1114639214/34.

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Turner, Jennifer Laverne. "#BlackMamasMatter: The Significance of Motherhood and Mothering for Low-Income Black Single Mothers." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/89344.

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In the present neoliberal era, low-income Black single mothers receiving public assistance must grapple with heightened state surveillance, the devaluation of their mothering, trying to raise Black children in a racist society, and navigating the neoliberal economic system. This dissertation examines how, in light of all this, such women perceive themselves as mothers and what they identify as the greatest influences on their ability to carry out their mothering activities. It specifically investigates how they perceive their race as influencing their motherhood and how they perceive employment in relation to motherhood. Based on in-depth interviews with 21 low-income single Black mothers in Virginia, findings illustrate that the mothers in this study recognize and resist controlling images of low-income Black single motherhood, such as the "welfare queen" and the "baby mama," and that a key aspect of their mothering activities is socializing their children around race and class. Findings also demonstrate that motherhood is a central identity for the women in this study and that they prioritize their motherhood identities over their work identities. In addition, in a departure from previous research on Black motherhood/mothering, findings show that the women in this study do not mother within dense networks of kin and community support.
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Low-income Black single mothers receiving public assistance must grapple with heightened state surveillance, the devaluation of their mothering, trying to raise Black children in a racist society, and declining social welfare support. This dissertation examines how, in light of all this, such women perceive themselves as mothers and what they identify as the greatest influences on their ability to carry out their mothering activities. It specifically investigates how they perceive their race as influencing their motherhood and how they perceive employment in relation to motherhood. Based on in depth interviews with 21 low-income Black single mothers in Virginia, findings illustrate that the mothers in this study recognize and resist stereotypes of low-income Black single motherhood, such as the “welfare queen” and the “baby mama,” and that a key aspect of their mothering activities is socializing their children around race and class. Findings also demonstrate that motherhood is a central identity for the women in this study and that they prioritize their motherhood identities over their work identities. In addition, in a departure from previous research on Black motherhood/mothering, findings show that the women in this study do not mother within dense networks of kin and community support.

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Kim, Natalia N. "Transnational Women Protagonists in Contemporary Cinema: Migration, Servitude, Motherhood." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1429100119.

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Ngum, Funiba. "An exploratory study of experiences of parenting among female students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2011. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_1106_1361369984.

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Advancement in education has ensured that there is parity in terms of enrolment for
both females and males at tertiary institutions. However, women students continue to face challenges to advancing in education. Given that South African society remains highly gendered and that universities are historically male-dominated sites that do not necessarily cater for the particular
needs of women (or children), one area of challenge may relate to having to balance parenting roles with the demands of being a student. For example, at the University of the Western Cape
(UWC), students with children are prohibited from access to the residences, leaving them with no option but to seek alternative accommodation, where they can remain with their babies or look for childcare support from their relatives. While there is a growing body of work on the experiences of school-going pregnant and parenting learners, there is little work in the South African context of the experiences of women who are both parents and students at tertiary institutions. Since the national education system clearly supports and encourages life-long learning, an investigation into the conditions and experiences of learning for parenting students is important. The focus on women students was motivated by existing findings that show how normative gender roles persist and that women continue to be viewed as the primary nurturers with respect to the care of children. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of motherhood among young female students at UWC. The study was situated within a feminist social constructionist framework and a feminist qualitative methodology was employed. Two or more interviews were conducted with a group of eight participants, selected by convenient sampling, and aged between 18 and 30 years, each with a child or children under the age of five
years. Interviews were conducted at the participants&rsquo
choice of location and at a time that was convenient to them. All interviews were audio-recorded and the tapes were kept safely in the
researcher&rsquo
s home. All standard ethical procedures for research with human subjects were followed. Data was transcribed verbatim and a qualitative thematic analysis was conducted. Key
themes
were elucidated and data presented thematically. The key challenges cited included time management, self motivation and the social demands of being a mother. These tend to have adverse repercussions on academic excellence. The analysis revealed that though the young women are allowed to return to universities after becoming mothers, they face many challenges in trying to balance motherhood and the demands of schooling. Furthermore, the findings highlight the tension and ambivalence experienced by participants as they negotiate the social and cultural expectations of motherhood and their personal reality, in meeting the demands of motherhood as student mothers. In their struggle to meet the social and cultural expectations of motherhood, they placed tremendous emotional and physical stress upon themselves which manifested as guilt, physical exhaustion, psychological stress, physical illness and the desire to leave studies notwithstanding the value they attached to it. Although the participants challenged these expectations in various ways, the underlying nuances when they recounted their experiences, remain embedded in these societal and cultural expectations. However, in voicing their experiences, it was clear that they were not always simply accepting the status quo but at times challenging it, and thereby deconstructing the myths of motherhood that are so salient in current social and cultural contexts. The study also found that student mothers at UWC, at least on the basis of this small sample - do not appear to receive sufficient support on campus (physically, materially and emotionally). The study concludes that this group of
student mothers face serious challenges as mothers and students and, further, that these challenges are exacerbated by the continued social expectations of women to be &lsquo
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mothers which, together with the material gender inequalities in sharing parenting care, could impede effective academic studies. The study recommends that universities play a stronger role in alleviating the challenges for such students. In addition, it recommends that more research be conducted in the area, possibly longitudinal studies, as well as studies that may be more generalisable.

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Iribarren, Nadal Mariona. "Dones, cos i ecologia. Dona arbre." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/662679.

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The thesis presented is a study of some women's movements which claim a recovery of the female body from a feminist and ecologist standpoint and which are currently spreading their influence. It provides a summary of the different aspects that embrace these international movements and their growing influence in Catalonia. It is intended to reflect on the ambivalence, but also the potential of these resistance movements in the corrent medical, educational and socioeconomic model. The many interviews that are part of the text set different shades to complete the mosaic portrait of this reality. It is a qualitative analysis which gives voice to different women involved in some aspects of the moviment studied in this thesis, either as professionals or as users: the female body, the menstrual cycle, women's circles and motherhood. The results obtained highlight the fact that the link between environmentalism, feminism and corporeality not only involves changes towards new practices at individual and family levels but also claims a global economic decline in order to achieve greater attention to life and its cycles. If these new attitudes are not favored from the environment, the result may be a source of physical and psychological exhaustion for some women.
La tesi que es presenta constitueix un estudi d'alguns moviments de dones que s'estan difonent actualment i que reclamen recuperar el cos femení des d'una perspectiva feminista i ecologista. S'ofereix un compendi dels diferents aspectes que abracen aquests moviments d'abast internacional i de creixent influència a Catalunya. Així, es pretén reflexionar sobre les ambivalències, però també les potencialitats d'aquests moviments de resistència a l'actual model mèdic, educatiu i socioeconòmic. Les múltiples entrevistes que formen part del text estableixen diferents matisos i completen el mosaic del retrat d'aquesta realitat. Es tracta d'una anàlisi qualitativa en què es dóna veu a diferents dones que participen en alguns dels aspectes del moviment que s'estudien en aquesta tesi, ja sigui com a professionals o com a usuàries: cos femení, cicle menstrual, cercles de dones i maternitat. Els resultats que s'han obtingut subratllen la vinculació entre l'ecologisme, el feminisme i la corporalitat que no només passa per canvis en noves pràctiques a nivell individual i familiar sinó també per una proposta global de decreixement econòmic per una major atenció a la vida i als seus cicles, ja que si des de l'entorn no s'afavoreixen, aquestes actituts poden arribar a suposar una font d'esgotament físic i psicològic per a algunes dones.

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Hansen, Katherine Gentry. "On the Making of Man: A Qualitative Study on the Meaning of Motherhood, Issues of Masculinity, and the Experience of Raising a Son." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35414.

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This qualitative research focuses on the meanings that contemporary, working women assign to the experience of motherhood, how the role of work intersects the role of motherhood, and how these women are constructing and deconstructing gender with their preschool-age sons. Feminist and symbolic interactionist perspectives are utilized to ground the study empirically. The results are based on the in-depth interviews the researcher conducted with five working mothers living in a rural, college town.
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Albee, Melissa J. "Opportunities for spiritual awakening and growth in mothering." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2008. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002397.

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Steinbach, Miriam, and Victoria Särnhult. ""A mother never stops waiting" : Exploring Motherhood as an Identity Marker in Social Movements." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42905.

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The movement Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos; a transnational social movement uniting Central American mothers from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua whose children have disappeared in Mexico while migrating to the US, is part of a Latin American tradition where a mother-centered kinship system is at the center. The movement has managed to reunite more than 300 families. The concept of motherhood is important in forming the identity of this particular movement, when making their voices heard in the public sphere to find their disappeared children, fight for migrants rights and for social change. In what ways does the concept of motherhood influence the Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos’s struggle and communication for social change? How does the movement’s use of motherhood as a primary identity marker contribute to or hinder the movement's struggle for human rights and development? To explore these questions we have collected data primarily through semi-structured interviews with members of the movement. We have also included other material such as recorded meetings, articles and videos for the contextual data in our content analysis. Our theoretical framework spans from more general theories on social movements and transnational movements to post-colonial theories on feminism and development, especially the Women Culture Development Approach (Bhavnani et al. 2016). Theories that concern cultural trauma and collective identity are also included since these are of specific relevance to the particular social movement of our case study. We found that besides spreading awareness on the widespread issues of migration and enforced disappearances, the movement is contributing to both gender autonomy and empowerment for the mothers of the Caravana de Madres de Migrantes Desaparecidos. In the process of joining the movement many women undergo a journey from being a victim in mourning to becoming a social activist who encourages the engagement of even more women in social change initiatives. This in turn has long lasting effects on social change in their home countries. Unfortunately, we found that since their male spouses often are not part of this process, when returning home many mothers experience a backlash in terms of gender equality.

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FREITAS, Shirleidy Mirelle da Costa. "Nas mãos: A criança e o cachimbo. As experiências de maternidade das mulheres usuárias de crack." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/16907.

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A presente pesquisa, inserida no campo dos direitos sexuais e dos direitos reprodutivos, fundamenta-se a partir da perspectiva epistemológica feminista pós-estrutural, utilizando-se de metodologia qualitativa. Sendo parte do Projeto Diálogos para o Desenvolvimento Social de Suape, teve o objetivo de analisar as experiências de maternidade de mulheres jovens usuárias de crack. Para tal, a pesquisadora acompanhou as jovens a partir da inserção das mesmas em um programa de assistência aos/às usuários/as de álcool e outras drogas, com foco no uso de crack, na cidade do Cabo de Santo Agostinho/PE. Houve acompanhamento do cotidiano do Programa por quatro meses, através de observação participante, com registro em diário de campo. Em seguida, houve a realização de entrevistas com quatro mulheres, participantes do programa, com idades entre 19-22 anos que tiveram filhos/as nos últimos dois anos, em contexto de uso do crack. Foi realizada uma análise temática dos dados, marcada por um olhar interseccional, utilizando o gênero como categoria analítica. Os resultados apontam que, em suas falas, as jovens reiteram os discursos hegemônicos sobre maternidade, relacionando-a a cuidado e responsabilidade. Todavia, constroem resistências ao exercer, com o apoio da rede familiar, práticas de cuidado aos/às filhos/as. As experiências de maternidade delas são marcadas por uma violência estrutural na medida em que as mesmas tem dificuldade de efetivar direitos básicos, como: moradia, educação, assistência à saúde e segurança, evidenciando uma relação enfraquecida com o Estado. Ao focalizar as experiências de maternidade destas mulheres jovens, a pesquisa pretendeu quebrar o silenciamento dos discursos das jovens mães usuárias de crack, trazendo para o cenário as experiências das mesmas, de forma a promover menos exclusão e vulnerabilidade.
The present research, in the field of study of sexual rights and those reproductive rights, is based upon the post-structural feminist epistemological perspective, using a qualitative methodology. It is a part of the Dialogues Project for Social Development of Suape, and it is aimed to analyze the motherhood experience of young women who use crack. For this, the researcher accompanied those young women that were assisted by a program for assistance for both women and men who use alcohol and/or other drugs, but with a specific emphasis placed upon those who use crack in the city of Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco (PE), located in the Northeast of Brazil. Over four months, the researcher followed the Program and accompanied their daily activities, through participative observations; observations were reordered and documented in the researchers field diary. Here four young mothers, assisted by this Program, were interviewed. These young women, ages 19-22 years old, all practiced the use of crack and had their babies within the last two years. A thematic analysis was used to realize the data, with an intersectional view and use of gender as an analytical category. The results of the data demonstrated that, in their own words, the youth continue to repeat the hegemonic discourses about motherhood, correlating it to care and responsibility. However, with the support of the family network, they built resistance through the exercise of care practices for their children. The motherhood experience of those women is marked by structural violence to the extent that they find it difficult to carry out their basic rights, such as: housing, education, health care and security, highlighting a weakened relationship with the State. By focusing on the motherhood experiences of these young women I intended to elicit a change from the oppressive silencing that young mothers who use crack face, while bringing to voice their similar experiences, in order to promote less exclusion and vulnerability.

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Nilsson, Elina. "Surrogatmödraskap: Arbete, gudagåva eller exploatering? : En analys av den svenska debatten kring surrogatmödraskap." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Centrum för genusvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-209395.

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Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman carries, delivers, and then relinquishes a baby to commissioning parents. The arrangement challenges traditional norms and definitions of reproduction, pregnancy and motherhood, and at the same time raises difficult ethical, philosophical and social questions. There is currently an ongoing debate in Sweden, where all forms of surrogacy is illegal. The debate is polemical and harsh, with advocates arguing that surrogacy is defensible on the basis of individual rights and women's right to choose over their own bodies, and those in opposition are convinced on an intersectional basis that women are being used and exposed on the market of surrogacy.The purpose of this study is to investigate the debate on surrogacy in the Swedish context. Using qualitative text analysis, the study aims to increase understanding about the debate over surrogacy by analyzing texts published in Swedish press during 2010-2013. I have analyzed the advocating arguments as well as the oppositional arguments constructing the ongoing debate of surrogacy with a focus on the transnational relations and the discrepancy between the views on altruistic and commercial forms of surrogacy.The findings indicate that surrogacy is in general seen as either a win-win situation or exploitation and confirms earlier intersectional postcolonial research that centers on surrogacy, which highlights a general tendency to not acknowledge the dimensions and intersections of gender, class, race, and ethnicity. This is crucial especially concerning surrogacy is such a transnational phenomenon, where for example (white) Swedes longing for babies go to India and through an Indian surrogate mother become parents. The study shows that the debate is somewhat a minefield, and while being polemical the debate is also very complex.

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Guluzar, Ozturk. "The Construction Of Female Identity In Timberlake Wertenbaker&#039." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614903/index.pdf.

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This thesis aims to analyse the construction of female identity from the beginning of the feminist activism in Victorian era whose rationale was formed during the eighteenth century, to the contemporary times in terms of patriarchy and motherhood in Timberlake Wertenbaker&rsquo
s The Grace of Mary Traverse and The Break of Day. This study is conducted with the historical development of the feminist movement that has had different agendas at different periods of history being taken into account. Fighting for women&rsquo
s emancipation and equality, feminism has helped women attain certain rights
however certain roles imposed on women that have been designed to define fema le identity cannot be said to have been eliminated. Rather, as this study shows, the oppression women have faced has just changed direction
but its nature is still the same. To this end, Wertenbaker presents the situation of women in different contexts of time and circumstances in her plays. Women&rsquo
s quest for identity has been interrupted and diverted by various oppressive mechanisms and institutions which are patriarchy and motherhood as the major focus of analysis throughout this thesis in Wertenbaker&rsquo
s plays.

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Dagdelen, Gozde. "Early Marriage: The Case Of Van Province In Turkey." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613262/index.pdf.

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The early marriage as a patriarchal cultural fact is not a retrospective solved up, ended issue but a problem lasting with all its tragedy. The early marriage which is the subject of this study is a form of actualisation of child abuse within the family, in the prison of privacy. This abuse may only be expressed within the repertoire of femaleness. Regarding this language, which is functionalized with destiny, fortune, luck, sin, immoral, the comprehension of what it means to be child-bride, how the patriarchy institutionalize the early marriage which we may call as legitimate child abuse was tried. If marriage occurs between persons either one of them or both of them is under 18 is called early marriage.Although child marriages are no legitimacy in the sense of jurisprudence, child marriage is still occurring as a cultural practice. This study based on some presumption such as everybody who is under the age of 18 is accepted as a child. Marriage is an important issue for feminism. Although there are different feminst perspectives, all of them are critical towards marriage. For instance
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marriage is a systematic way of oppressing women hence being a child likely to intensified adverse consequences of marriage. The main concerns of this study how their child status affects their marriage experiences. In this frame work early marriaged studied based on a field research conducted on 19 women in Van province .In order to get diversity in Van, four districts were chosen. The scopes that women&rsquo
s marriage experiences are questioned are the following women&rsquo
s domestic labor, women participating in social life, violence against women, sexuality, motherhood and childcare. In order to get more insight about the issue 8 representatives of non governmental organizations and 10 public officials who interested in women issue are met.

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Puchalska, Sylvia. "The mother and the child clinical psychologist : a discursive analysis of professional conversations." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/7761.

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Aim: Motherhood is placed under a lens by society: mothers are expected to fit within narrowly defined characteristics which dictate who mothers should be and how they should act. Although there are numbers of articles that explore this issue, little attention has been paid to how health professionals, and clinical psychologists in particular, position themselves in relation to societal ideas about motherhood. The research aims to define the discursive resources used by Clinical Psychologists (CPs) to construct the shapes and identities of motherhood, and to explore how these resources were deployed. Method: A discourse analysis approach is employed. Data came from 3 focus group interviews (N=9), which were set up in order to explore motherhood and mothers. Participants were all qualified CPs working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the UK. The research is positioned within a social constructionist frame and takes a critical realist position. The analysis includes elements of both discursive psychology and critical discourse analysis, filtered through a postmodern feminist lens. Findings: A number of discursive practices and identity positions around womanhood and motherhood were highlighted and a set of interlinked dilemmas emerged for women around how to be a woman and how to be a mother. A further dilemma emerged for CPs which encompassed how they worked with women, and what positions they took when doing so. Womanhood and motherhood appeared to be troubled, which had the potential to oppress mothers attending CAMHS. Female CPs were included within this trouble, however, which created interesting juxtapositions within the deployment of discursive resources. Finally, some positive discursive practices were identified which highlighted acceptance and tolerance of pluralities of being a woman and being a mother. Implications: Reflection, deconstruction and an opening up of the debate were seen to be useful devices in helping psychologists to expose potentially oppressive practices. Politicisation of psychology was also explored.

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Delchamps, Vivian. "“Of the Woman First of All”: Walt Whitman and Women's Literary History." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2014. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/420.

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This thesis contemplates Walt Whitman's role in the lives of 19th and 20th century women writers and his significance to early American feminism. I consider the ways women inspired him to develop pro-feminist ideas about maternity, womanhood, and female liberation.

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Spong, Kaitlyn M. "“Your love is too thick”: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Slave Narratives, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Our Contemporary Moment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2573.

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In this paper, Kait Spong examines alternative practices of mothering that are strategic nature, heavily analyzing Patricia Hill Collins’ concepts of “othermothering” and “preservative love” as applied to Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved and Harriet Jacob’s 1861 slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Using literary analysis as a vehicle, Spong then applies these West African notions of motherhood to a modern context by evaluating contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter where black mothers have played a prominent role in making public statements against systemic issues such as police brutality, heightened surveillance, and the prison industrial complex.

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Berg, Annika. "Att bli subjekt i sin egen historia : En studie i Alice Lyttkens Flykten från vardagen och - kommer inte till middagen." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Gender, Culture and History, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1543.

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Alice Lyttkens (1897-1991) was a very popular author in Sweden during several decades in the middle of the twentieth century. She was most famous for her historical novels. During her first period as a novelist in the 1930s, however, she wrote contemporary fiction, reflecting the situation of contemporary Women. The traditional view of the two sexes as “complementary” permeated the interwar period. Complementary at this time was presupposed as an asymmetrical and hierarchical relation between the two sexes. The male was seen as superior to the female in being strong when she was weak etc. According to the Swedish researcher Kristina Fjelkestam’s dissertation Ungkarlsflickor, kamrathustrur och manhaftiga lesbianer this view was close at hand in representations of femininity. In this paper I discuss how the protagonists in Alice Lyttkens novels Flykten från vardagen (1933) and - kommer inte till middagen (1934) relate to this social norm, or ”doxa”. By making such an analysis I come to the conclusion that this ”doxa” is represented in both novels, but strongly challenged by the protagonists in their actions and life choices. The narrator also questions the predominated complementary view and demonstrates the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings throughout the novels. The author there by emphasizes a critical feminist attitude. The narrator is also critical of the superficial so-called modern characters, which apparently is under the influence of the ”doxa”.

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Lupu, Ioana. "La construction de l’identité des femmes experts-comptables en France : rendre compte de la construction de l’identité : la négociation du soi chez les femmes experts-comptables." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2010CNAM0743/document.

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Cette thèse a comme objectif de contribuer à la compréhension du processus de construction de l’identité des femmes experts-comptables. Elle s'appuie sur la réalisation d'une quarantaine d’entretiens semi-directifs, à portée biographique, réalisés auprès de femmes et d'hommes experts-comptables et stagiaires. Deux identités saillantes, de professionnelle et de mère, ont été plus particulièrement mises en évidence. Ces deux identités s’influencent réciproquement. Leurs évolutions s'interpénètrent et nourrissent une même construction identitaire. Les rôles de mère et de manager/professionnelle sont cependant porteurs de contradictions et de tensions qui induisent différentes stratégies de conciliation. La distinction de deux grandes catégories de stratégies, une stratégie de gestion familiale et une stratégie de gestion professionnelle a permis d'analyser la manière dont les femmes professionnelles comptables ont pu s’adapter à la culture organisationnelle des cabinets d'expertise. Ces pratiques ne sont cependant que principalement adaptatives et peinent à véritablement induire des changements culturels
The thesis is positioned at the confluence of literature on gender, professions and identity and aims to contribute to the understanding of the processes of identity construction of women public accountants. The empirical data presented in this dissertation is based on over forty semi-structured biographic interviews with women and men, CPAs and trainees. My method was built progressively as a result of my immersion in the field and of my personal experience as a woman and professional accountant. Based on my findings, I highlighted the existence of an approved organizational path characterized by linear, constant upward mobility and submitted to organizational norms. This professional model, constructed as masculine, does not appeal to a majority of women, and especially mothers, who decide to have recourse to alternative professional models. Although promoted by the firms, these models lack the legitimacy of approved routes and often imply a derailment of women’s careers right from the early days because previous choices may limit the range of choices available in the future. My study is focused on the construction of women CPA’s professional identity and of its interaction with motherhood. I show that in constructing their identity women dwell on socially defined roles and organizationally available discourses that may be in contradiction with each other. Thus, women attempting to construct themselves as both good professional and mother may experience identity tensions. Nevertheless, their identities are not fragmented, but are the result of a continuous effort to integrate contradictory discourses in an ongoing biography. In addition, I highlight two types of strategies that women professional accountants use: strategies concerning family and strategies concerning work. Their analysis allow me to draw the conclusion that women CPA impose new work practices that are mostly adaptive practices and do not aim to alter the current ones

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Martin, Lene Karine. "Lost in the Woods: A Theatrical Journey Through Gender and Media Analysis." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1133997072.

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Olander, Louise. "Privilege and Poverty under Patriarchy : An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of the Portrayal of Wives and Mothers in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35867.

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Building on previous feminist literary criticism of Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854-55), this essay analyses the portrayal of wives and mothers in the novel from an intersectional feminist perspective. It examines how the narrative shows that gender and economic status or class intersect to create varied representations of Victorian women's marginalisation. The analysis argues that the novel, on the one hand, depicts wives and mothers as united by their status at "the other" in patriarchal Victorian society. On the other hand, the novel juxtaposes economically privileged and poor wives and mothers to show that they are not equally isolated, powerless, or willing to comply with Victorian gender roles. The result is a complex and empathetic portrayal of wives and mothers' privilege and poverty under patriarchy, which challenges the Victorian ideal of wives and mothers as "angels in the house".

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Peterson, Anna M. "The Birth of a Welfare State: Feminists, Midwives, Working Women and the Fight for Norwegian Maternity Leave, 1880-1940." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1373297278.

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Favaro, Fernanda. "Under our own eyes - Mothers in search for consciousness and social change in Brazil." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21687.

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This case study provides an analysis on how working women mothers in Brazil articulate themselves in a feminist network born on social media (Maternativa) to generate collective empowerment, raise awareness about oppression and mobilize around work rights. Using qualitative methods such as insider participant observation, interviews and content analysis, it investigates how participatory-related communicative practices and feminism interplay on digital and interpersonal environments fostering dialogue, conscientization and, potentially, a “political turn” in the collective’s agenda. Theoretical underpinnings include Manuel Castells’ network society, participatory communication and Paulo Freire’s theories on oppressed subjects, as well as insights from matricentric and black feminisms. The validity of (feminist) participatory practices for the strengthening of women mothers’ grass-roots movements and its potential applicability to mitigate the limitations of social media are some of the conclusions offered. Despite challenges typical of social movements and a significant “white woman bias”, participation has been able to produce an expanded awareness of the different systems of oppression. As a result, women’s discourse and engagement inside the network has become increasingly political and critical regarding structural power relations in the Brazilian society.

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Dibben, Andreana. "Teenage pregnancy and motherhood in Malta : a feminist ethnography." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2016. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.701809.

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The aim of this thesis is to portray detailed accounts of how pregnant teenagers and teenage mothers in a school-based service define their situation in the context of the policies and services that frame their lives. The research is based in Malta, a small Catholic island that has undergone rapid socio-demographic changes in the past two decades that have shaped the context of teenage pregnancy. Through this study, I focus on developing an understanding of pregnant teenagers' and teenage mothers' perceptions on their sexual, reproductive and mothering choices and experiences, their views and experiences of education, employment and welfare and the processes by which 'oppression' and ' agency' are manifested in their lives. The theoretical underpinnings of this thesis draw from feminist maternal theory. An exploration of writings by prominent motherhood scholars has highlighted both the way women are oppressed as mothers, and the way motherhood can serve as a site of resistance. Furthermore, it has drawn attention to the importance of context in shaping the meaning and experiences of motherhood. The conceptual framework of this study relates to these theories through exploring both the ways in which young mothers' experiences are shaped by their gender and social location as well as the way they exercise power and agency through making rational and moral choices within their social circumstances. The methodology is based on a feminist critical ethnography, philosophically positioned in social constructivism. The fieldwork was undertaken over a sixteen month period in an alternative educational programme that offers both a pregnancy programme and a mother and baby club for new mothers. Through participant observation and semistructured interviews, I gathered data from 24 participants, ranging in age from 12 to 20 years, who attended either or both of these programmes. The emergent themes are centred on the way young mothers concurrently accepted, negotiated and challenged dominant ideas about motherhood. Through describing participants' pathways to motherhood and the way they practiced mothering, I demonstrate their awareness of the way they transgressed the boundaries of normative ideologies, and the way they defended their motherhood identity, as they simultaneously challenged negative stereotypes while attempting to assimilate through their mothering practices. I further outline the diverse relationship trajectories experienced by young mothers and how power struggles characterised most of the relationships with the men in their lives, whether as intimate partners or as their children's fathers. Within dynamics that were constantly shifting and evolving, the processes of oppression and agency interweaved as participants negotiated tensions in different aspects of their relationships. I also look at the education and employment experiences of these young mothers, their expectations and aspirations in this arena as well as their views on welfare. Placing the young women's representations at the centre, this thesis further illustrates the heterogeneity of teenage mothers' experiences and emphasises the fact that a 'one size fits all' policy approach is not always helpful in terms of responding effectively to teenage mothers' needs.

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Casto, Heidi McKay. "Reflections on motherhood." Thesis, University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/932.

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I had dreamed of being a mother for some time. These dreams were complete with expectations of how and when I would give birth, and what motherhood would look and feel like. Now that I am a mother, I realize that my projected expectations in light of my true experience provide a conflicting story. While adjusting to reality has not always been easy, the experiences in unknown territory have brought beauty, joy, sadness, pride, and love in ways I never imagined. I believe that the only way to fully grasp the intensity of the experience of motherhood is to actually live through it. In this sense, the significance of documenting the motherhood experience is to capture the emotions and the reality of being a mother. I hope to put images to the continual conversation, conflict, and emotional battle that wages inside of me. I feel driven to document this experience not only to preserve these feelings for my own sake, but also to shed light on what I see as a misperception of motherhood. My experience with motherhood as subject matter for my artwork has led me to feel a sense of judgment; that to talk about motherhood in a fine art context is almost by nature taboo. I find this strange, as certainly we all have, or have had mothers. I hope to question this perceived negativity in the discussion of this relationship. I also desire to give those who share my feelings regarding motherhood a voice; to be confident in their experience, their love for their children, and to celebrate the common, yet extraordinary role of being a mother.

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Zhang, Yahui. "Layered Motherhood for Chinese Mother Bloggers: A Feminist Foucauldian Analysis." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1213368097.

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Ramlawi, Rachel L. "Queen of the Hill." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605097917011871.

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Bretag, Tracey. "Subversive mothers : contemporary women writers challenge motherhood ideology /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1999. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armb844.pdf.

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Papadimitriou, Filia. "Motherhood motivation childhood experiences, attachment style, feminisim, sex role identity & fertility awareness /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net.

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Thesis (DPsych) - Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008.
Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Professional Doctorate in Psychology, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology - 2008. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-148).

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Raith, Lisa. "(Re)Birth of the self: ordinary women's complex journey into new motherhood. A feminist poststructural narrative study. Volumes I and II." University of Southern Queensland, Faculty of Sciences, 2008. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/archive/00006243/.

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[Abstract]This doctoral research explored Australian mothers’ unique, engaging, and predominantly enjoyable transitions to early motherhood. Their expectations, beliefs, and experiences were investigated using narrative and thematic analyses underpinned by a feminist, poststructural methodology. The 10 participants in this study were white, middle-class, heterosexual, partnered, and able-bodied women living in south-east Queensland and expecting their first child. In-depth ante- and postnatal interviews were conducted at the 2nd trimester of pregnancy and 8 months post-birth respectively. These women experienced the early motherhood journey as an unsettled period which necessitated the utilisation of four, often contradictory, maternal identities. The four identities, or voices, were Ideal Mother; Challenged, Practical Self; Extended, Spiritual Self; and Independent Self. This research has shown that becoming a mother for contemporary Australian women is simultaneously joyful, thrilling, confronting, depressing, constraining, and empowering. Thus, the transition to motherhood was a complex and chaotic experience which confronted their sense of self. Moreover, it is clear that young women are often under prepared for the paradoxes and intensity of their journeys. My thesis is that for these contemporary Australian women, becoming a mother necessitated drawing on four dominant, often contradictory voices or identities resulting in a complex transitional experience of individual and personal negotiation and integration. The complexity of this life-transition defies simple explanation and solution. Regardless, the findings suggest that all the stories of mothering need to be told to make them equally real, valid, valuable, and normal. Thus can we find and develop new and useful models of modern motherhood to enable policy makers and health practitioners to provide more informed, particular, and empathetic support for new Australian mothers, as well as strengthen future mothers for and feel positive about their mothering careers.

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Shackson, Catherine O'Kane. "Stories of Mother-Students: Narrative Inquiry of White, First-Generation College Students Who Are Mothers." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami153219755264718.

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Harrington, Erin Jean. "Gynaehorror: Women, theory and horror film." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Cultural Studies, School of Humanities and Creative Arts, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9586.

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This thesis offers an analysis of women in horror film through an in depth exploration of what I term ‘gynaehorror’ – horror films that are concerned with female sex, sexuality and reproduction. While this is a broad and fruitful area of study, work in it has been shaped by a pronounced emphasis upon psychoanalytic theory, which I argue has limited the field of inquiry. To challenge this, this thesis achieves three things. Firstly, I interrogate a subgenre of horror that has not been studied in depth for twenty years, but that is experiencing renewed interest. Secondly, I analyse aspects of this subgenre outside of the dominant modes of inquiry by placing an emphasis upon philosophies of sex, gender and corporeality, rather than focussing on psychodynamic approaches. Thirdly, I consider not only what these theories may do for the study of horror films, but what spaces of inquiry horror films may open up within these philosophical areas. To do this, I focus on six broad streams: the current limitations and opportunities in the field of horror scholarship, which I augment with a discussion of women’s bodies, houses and spatiality; the relationship between normative heterosexuality and the twin figures of the chaste virgin and the voracious vagina dentata; the representation and expression of female subjectivity in horror films that feature pregnancy and abortion; the manner in which reproductive technology is bound up within hegemonic constructions of gender and power, as is evidenced by the figure of the ‘mad scientist’; the way that discourses of motherhood and maternity in horror films shift over time, but nonetheless result in the demonisation of the mother; and the theoretical and corporeal possibilities opened up through Deleuze and Guattari’s model of schizoanalysis, with specific regard to the 'Alien' films. As such, this thesis makes a unique contribution to the study of women in horror film, while also advocating for an expansion of the theoretical repertoire available to the horror scholar.

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Hallström, Linnea. "Representations of motherhood in Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Morisson’s Beloved." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23884.

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This thesis is a comparative analysis of the African American author Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved and the Native American writer Louise Erdrich’s novel Love Medicine. The focus of this essay will be the theme motherhood. A feminist theoretical and critical approach are used throughout the thesis and focus is laid upon the third wave of feminism which: “borrows from post-structural and contemporary gender and race theories (…) to expand on marginalized populations’ experiences.” (Purdue OWL). In the novel Love Medicine the characters Marie and Lulu are examined. Both characters are strong independent women and through them the author challenges the Western-European image of motherhood, family and female characteristics. In the novel Beloved, the characters Sethe and Baby Suggs are studied with two focus points. The first is the impact that motherhood can have on the development of the self and how Morrison shows this through the character Sethe. The second focus point is the effects that come from slavery and mainly the effects that can come from the denial of motherhood. These novels manage to challenge the western norm of motherhood through different aspects and in different ways.

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Carton-Vincent, Alison. "Écriture du corps et féminismes : genre, sexualité et maternité dans l’oeuvre narrative à la première personne de Dacia Maraini." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3034.

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Avec l’essor du néo-féminisme en Italie à la fin des années 1960, un genre littéraire se développe rapidement : le roman féministe. Souvent relaté à la première personne, il présente des parcours de femmes aux prises avec une société patriarcale qui les opprime et dont elles tentent de se libérer. Dès ses premières oeuvres, Dacia Maraini s’inscrit dans cette veine narrative. Elle en fournira les exemples les plus célèbres (notamment avec Donna in guerra en 1975) et en assurera la diffusion même après la fin du féminisme militant dans les années 1980 avec des oeuvres moins marquées idéologiquement mais toujours inscrites dans une visée de dénonciation des inégalités. À mi-chemin entre création littéraire et engagement politique, les récits féministes à la première personne de Dacia Maraini s’attachent tout particulièrement à la question du corps, interface entre soi et les autres, entre le privé et le politique. Considérant la période 1962- 2001, ce travail montre comment l’auteure investit et questionne les territoires du genre, de la sexualité et de la maternité par le biais de fictions mais aussi d’oeuvres autobiographiques. Dans une optique pluridisciplinaire empruntant à la fois les outils de l’analyse littéraire et de l’histoire des idées, le je des récits du corpus est analysé en tant que modalité énonciative spécifique mais aussi en tant qu’instrument performatif de diffusion du féminisme marainien, dans un rapport circulaire entre art et société, entre culture et pouvoir
With the rise of neo-feminism in Italy in the end of the 1960's, a new literary genre quickly developed: the feminist novel. The first-person narrative was frequently used to portray women who fought against an oppressing patriarchal society from which they tried to get free. From her first works, Dacia Maraini followed this narrative style. She provided its most famous examples (especially in Donna in guerra, in 1975) and she guaranteed its propagation – even after the end of activist feminism in the 1980's – through works that were not as ideologically engaged as the first ones but that still aimed at denouncing inequalities. Halfway between literary creation and political commitment, the first person feminist narrative of Dacia Maraini particularly focuses on the topic of the body, as a link between one and the others, between the personal and the political. I will study the 1962-2001 period, and I will show how the author concentrates on the territories of gender, sexuality and motherhood and how she questions them through fiction and autobiographical stories. I choose a multidisciplinary perspective that takes the tools of both literary analysis and the history of ideas, in order to analyse the use of the first person as a specific enunciative modality and as a performative instrument for the propagation of Marainian feminism in a circular relationship between arts and society, between culture and power

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Ellis, Lacy Kristine. "Policemoms: Perceptions of Motherhood and Policy in Ohio Police Organizations." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2649.

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Police organizations have a problem retaining female police officers, especially those who are mothers. Women leave the policing profession at higher rates during childbearing and child-rearing years than during any other time in their career. Using feminist theory as a foundation, the purpose of this phenomenological study was to gain a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of policewomen who are mothers and identify factors that contribute to poor retention rates during childbearing and child-rearing years. Data were collected through 11 interviews with policewomen, who were also mothers, in Ohio. These data were analyzed using Saldana's 2-cycle coding procedure followed by thematic analysis. The findings included a set of patterns that provided insight into the reasons why female police officers are more difficult to retain. These patterns included: (a) challenges related to a double standard associated with women being primary caregivers, (b) psycho-social changes after children including hypervigilance on the job, (c) fear of reassignment or termination, and (d) the perception that departmental policy fails to address the unique needs of female officers. Together, the findings suggest that police departments today have yet to fully understand the challenges that policewomen who are mothers face on a daily basis. The implications for social change include reformed policies and practices that could contribute to the advancement and professionalization of the policing profession as a whole by changing the traditionally masculine organizational culture and promoting a more gender-neutral environment, thus allowing communities to benefit from having a more diverse police force.

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Bechtel, Abigail A. "Unruly: Essays from a Woman Evolving." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491347435570709.

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Macdonald, Lindsey Marie. "Identity, Ethos, and Community: Rhetorical Dimensions of Secular Mommy Blogs." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73601.

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This study examines secular mommy bloggers, a group of women who blog about the difficulties of being a nonbeliever parent in a predominantly religious society. In this study, I explore the rhetorical dimensions of four separate blogs by investigating how each mother builds identity within her personal blog and how her sense of identity enables her to construct individual ethos. Furthermore, I illustrate how the individual ethos of each blogger contributes to a group ethos representing the entire secular parenting community. Ultimately, I show how these mothers rhetorically set themselves apart from other nonbeliever/secular groups.
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Long, Anita M. "Feminist Storytelling & Rhetorical Negotiations: The Experiences of Mothers Sharing their Birth Stories Online." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564761551445608.

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Bretag, Tracey. "Mum's the word : feminist theory and the representation of motherhood in three novels by contemporary Australian women writers /." Title page and contents only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb844.pdf.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Motherhood and feminism'

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