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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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Horbatko, Y. "The global politics of motherhood and fatherhood." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2017. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/64536.
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The global politics of motherhood and fatherhood due to the fact that throughout the twentieth century there was an important economic, social and cultural shifts that defined the changes of institutions, models and practices of fatherhood in contemporary society. Transformation in the sphere of marriage, types of the family affects both the sphere of marital/partner and international relations, and the sphere of relationships of mothers, fathers and children. In particular, fatherhood becomes a rationally planned, reflective, separate from marriage, poses the problem of biological and social fatherhood unity. Motherhood as a special sphere of activities and relationships related to the care and custody of children is included in the broader contexts of family, fatherhood, childhood and gender inequalities, it is a component of social, cultural and demographic processes.
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Wilson, Kristin J. "Not Trying: Reconceiving the Motherhood Mandate." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_diss/41.
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Infertile and childless women think about, live with, and defend their status as mothers and as nonmothers, arguably more so than other women for whom motherhood comes about accidentally or relatively easily in accordance with a plan. Within this group of infertile and childless women are those who are otherwise socially marginalized by factors like class, race, age, marital status, and sexual identity. This dissertation asks about the ways in which marginalized infertile and childless women in America make sense of their situations given the climate of “stratified reproduction” in which the motherhood mandate excludes them or applies to them only obliquely. While other researchers focus on inequalities in access to treatment to explain why many marginalized women eschew medically assisted reproduction and adoption, I emphasize women’s resistance to these attempts at normalization. I take a critical, poststructural, feminist stance within a constructivist analytical framework to suggest that the medicalization, commodification, and bureaucratization of the most available alternative paths to motherhood create the role of the “infertile woman”—i.e., the white, middle class, heternormative, married, “desperate and damaged” cum savvy consumer. By contrast, the women who participated in this study are better described as the “ambivalent childless” (i.e., neither voluntary nor involuntary) and the “pragmatic infertile.” These women experience infertility and childlessness—two interrelated, potentially stigmatizing “roles”—in ways that belie this stereotype, reject the associated stigma in favor of an abiding, dynamic ambivalence, and re-assert themselves as fulfilled women in spite of their presumed deviance.
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Fitzgerald, Louise. "Negotiating lone motherhood : gender, politics and family values in contemporary popular cinema." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/10577/.
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In 2001, four out of the five Academy Award nominations for best actress went to women who played the role of a lone mother, Juliette Binoche for Chocolat (Lasse Hallsttrom: 2000) Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh: 2000), Laura Linney for You Can Count on Me (Kenneth Lonnergan: 2000) and Ellen Burstyn for Requiem for A Dream (Darren Aronofsky: 2000). The fact that these four films each prioritized a narrative of lone motherhood became a point of interest for cultural observers who saw the popularization of lone mother narratives as indicative of mainstream cinema’s policy of inclusion and diversity and reflective of a broader political acceptance of lone motherhood. And yet, despite the phenomenal political and cultural significance of the lone mother figure, little academic attention has been paid to the cultural prioritization of this oftentimes demonized female figure. This thesis offers a critical account of the cultural investment in mainstream cinema’s lone mother figure to argue that she plays a crucial role in shoring up postfeminist, neoliberal and neo-conservative family values rhetoric in ways which highlight the exclusions on which postfeminism thrives.
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Goldade, Kate R. "Negotiating the Moral Politics of Transnational Motherhood: Conducting Ethnographic Research in Central America." University of Arizona, Department of Anthropology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/110054.
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In this narrative, the author reflects on the personal and ethical dilemmas she faces currently in the beginning stages of conducting dissertation research fieldwork, an aspect often glossed over by retrospective accounts. She is conducting ethnography of Nicaraguan labor migrant women working in Costa Rica's coffee agro-industry, with an emphasis on reproductive health and motherhood. In addition to her social position as a Western, advanced graduate student-researcher, Goldade is also a wife and mother, arriving in the field with her baby daughter just under 4 months of age. She grapples with the challenges of negotiating the moral politics of motherhood and ethnography, seeking collaboration among host country nationals and recruiting study participants, as well as the balancing act of working motherhood.
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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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Cupples, Julie. "Disrupting discourses and (re)formulating identities : the politics of single motherhood in post-revolutionary Nicaragua." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Geography, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2562.
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There is a clear relationship between motherhood and space in the sense that motherhood is constituted spatially, taking specific and shifting forms in different spaces and because gendered geographies are made, remade or contested in terms of how women practise motherhood and other social identities in particular spaces. The meanings of motherhood are subject to constant renegotiation when gender identity is lived and constructed in times of hardship, political change or upheaval. Over the last few decades, Nicaragua has experienced dictatorship, insurrection, revolution, Contra war, more than a decade of neoliberal structural adjustment policies and a number of disasters including Hurricane Mitch which hit Nicaragua in October 1998. The social and cultural context in which women mother is a complex one. Family life is unstable and fluid and Nicaragua has large numbers of single mothers. However, a number of institutional actors have attempted to undermine this complexity by trying to fix the meanings of motherhood, family, femininity, masculinity and sexuality in simplified and reified ways. These attempts contribute to the pervasiveness of dominant discourses of motherhood. In many ways, everyday practices of motherhood are at odds with dominant discourses and the goal of this thesis is to broaden understandings of the way motherhood intersects with other cultural processes in particular spaces and of how women negotiate competing facets of multiple identities. Based on qualitative research conducted in Matagalpa with a group of single mothers, this thesis explores a number of arenas in which women negotiate motherhood, including family breakdown, revolution and counterrevolution, structural adjustment and disaster, and demonstrates how everyday practices challenge dominant understandings. Given that individuals participate in a number of discursive practices simultaneously, the intersection of dominant discourses and everyday practices work to create specific geographies of mothering. This means for example that women might adopt more masculine subject positions in relation to work and family while engaging in maternal politics in the political sphere or that male violence towards women can be condemned and single motherhood adopted as a positive form of identity assertion while uneasiness is expressed about the absence of fathers in children’s lives. By contextualising the conditions in which women mother and focusing on how individual women feel about and reflect upon their lives, this study illustrates the multiple dimensions of motherhood which exist within Nicaraguan culture and the contradictions faced by women who mother in sites of intense cultural struggle. This study has important implications for the epistemological transformation that is taking place within feminist geography in particular and within human geography more broadly. Motherhood has the discursive power to shape and define gender identities, but it can also be used to unsettle or destabilise gender and sexuality in material and discursive space.
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Molony, Samantha L. "Of the Mothers, by the Mothers and for the Mothers: A Frame Analysis of Motherhood Discourse in Female Politicians’ Speeches." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460447019.
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O'Byrne, Cheryl. "An Ethos of Dialogue: The Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Australian Matriography." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2022. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/29796.
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This project explores life narratives Australian daughters have written about their mothers and published since 1990. It analyses how the daughters navigate the tensions between their desire to write the mother’s story and the myriad factors that impede their view and process; and it concentrates on the ethical and political implications of their aesthetic choices. At one end of the aesthetic spectrum (chapter 1) is a realist memoir which disregards the layers of mediation between text and mother. At the other end (chapter 5) is an avant-garde matriography which thematises these layers. Rather than argue that the move away from realism corresponds to a more ethical rendering of the mother—as hypothesised at the commencement of the project—the thesis argues that ethics derives from the extent to which the daughter acknowledges the complexity of her matriographical endeavour and of her mother subject. The thesis shows the ethical imperative for complexity is relevant on the interpersonal level, between daughter and mother, and that it extends to the political level: matriographies that depict complex maternal subjects, whether descriptively or through formal experimentation, contribute to undermining a Western cultural imaginary that, in Jacqueline Rose’s words, identifies motherhood as “the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings.” A sixth chapter attends to Aboriginal daughter-mother writing and shifts attention from the ethics of settler writing to the ethics of settler reading. Echoing the interest in complexity that animates the first five chapters, it argues that an ethical reading position requires the settler to adopt a nuanced recognition of Aboriginal daughter-mother texts as aesthetic and political objects. The thesis, therefore, highlights the potential for activism inherent in Australian matriographies, and it articulates the conditions of composition and reception that should be met to ensure this potential is realised.
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Charoni, Eugenia. "From Motherhood and Marriage to Symbolist Theater and Revolutionary Politics: French and Spanish Women's Theatre, 1890's to 1930's." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1377871014.
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Klein, Carin. "Biopolíticas de inclusão social e produção de maternidades e paternidades para uma 'infância melhor'." reponame:Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFRGS, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10183/27048.
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Esta tese analisa uma política voltada para a promoção de uma “Primeira Infância Melhor” (PIM), do Governo do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, para discutir como ela, ao atuar como uma instância pedagógica se propõe a enunciar educar e regular mulheres e homens como sujeitos de gênero, no sentido de governar e instituir formas de exercer a maternidade e a paternidade. Utilizo os aportes dos Estudos de Gênero e Culturais, em aproximação com a perspectiva pós-estruturalista, principalmente da análise do discurso, de inspiração foucaultiana. O material empírico da tese foi produzido em um trabalho de campo de caráter etnográfico, por meio do cruzamento de informações de diferentes fontes: (i) documentos oficiais referentes ao PIM; (ii) atividades que integram o PIM, conforme registradas em diário de campo; (iii) entrevistas com técnicos/as, visitadoras e mulheres-mães participantes. Ao assumir o pressuposto de que a linguagem é produtora das práticas sociais, tornou-se importante descrever e explorar: (i) a metodologia do PIM, anunciada tanto em seus documentos quanto através da materialidade expressa por meio de falas, conselhos, ensinamentos de educação e(m) saúde e atividades protagonizadas pelos/as técnicos/as e visitadoras, dirigidos às mulheres e crianças; (ii) o que as famílias, sobretudo através das mulheres-mães, precisavam aprender a fim de melhor cuidar e conduzir a infância; (iii) as aproximações produzidas entre a prática do cuidado materno e as propostas de educação e(m) saúde voltadas à infância. Com o propósito de visibilizar os argumentos que investem numa politização contemporânea da maternidade e apreender como o gênero funciona para organizar, a partir de um conjunto de significados e símbolos construídos, relações sociais de poder, analiso a articulação de fragmentos discursivos provenientes da puericultura, das políticas maternalistas, da psicologia do desenvolvimento, da economia e da neurociência, cujo objetivo era embasar e formular os ensinamentos e orientações dirigidas às famílias, principalmente às mulheres-mães. As análises permitem dizer que as formas de “educar” e de atingir os objetivos formulados, por meio do PIM, operam no sentido de posicionar os/as técnicos/as, as mulheres-visitadoras e as mulheres-mães de diferentes modos. Nesse contexto, o posicionamento das mulheres-mães decorre da necessidade de o Estado, num cenário de pobreza e vulnerabilidade social, politizar a maternidade por meio da adequação a uma extensa pedagogia, co-responsabilizando as mulheres-mães pelo cumprimento de funções relativas à saúde e à educação das crianças.This thesis analyzes a policy proposed by the government of Rio Grande do Sul State aiming at improving the situation of early childhood (Primeira Infância Melhor – PIM). The thesis approaches how this policy, by acting as a pedagogical resource, attempts to enunciate, educate and regulate women and men as gender subjects, so as to govern and institute forms of exercising motherhood and fatherhood. I have used Cultural and Gender Studies, in an approximation to the post-structuralist perspective, mainly the discourse analysis, as inspired by Foucault. The empirical material was produced through ethnographic field work, by intertwining information from different sources: (i) official documents related to PIM, (ii) activities proposed by PIM, as recorded in a field diary; (iii) interviews with technicians, visitors and mothers. By assuming the presupposition that language produces social practices, it has become important to describe and explore: (i) PIM‟s methodology, shown both in its documents and in the materiality expressed in speeches, advices, teachings in health education, and activities carried out by technicians and visitors and directed towards women; (ii) what families, mainly mothers, should learn in order to look after children and conduct childhood; (iii) approximations produced between the practice of maternal care and proposals of health education aimed at childhood. With the aim of both making visible the arguments that invest in a contemporary politicization of motherhood and apprehending how gender works to organize, from a set of meanings and symbols, social relations of power, I have analyzed the articulation of discursive fragments coming from child care, maternal policies, development psychology, economics and neuroscience, whose aim was to found and formulate teachings and orientations to families, mainly mothers. The analyses have enabled me to say that the forms to “educate” and achieve the objectives formulated by PIM operate to position technicians, visitors and mothers in different ways. In this context, the positioning of mothers is due to the need of the State, in scenery of poverty and social vulnerability, politicize motherhood through the conformation to an extensive pedagogy in which mothers are co-responsible for functions related to children's health and education.
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Alvarez, Mora Bruna. "Las (ir)racionalidades de la maternidad en España: Influencias del mercado laboral y las relaciones de género en las decisiones reproductivas." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/454824.
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El contexto reproductivo español ha sido descrito como de “infertilidad estructural” (Marre, 2009), a causa del descenso de la fecundidad desde mediados de los años 70, debido principalmente a las condiciones del mercado laboral (Marre, 2009), los discursos feministas que vinculaban la libertad de las mujeres con la no-maternidad (Marre, 2012 a Briggs et al., 2012) y a la falta de políticas públicas de apoyo a la maternidad (Comas d’Argemir et al., 2016). A pesar de esta situación, la mayoría de mujeres tienen hijos/as, aunque tengan menos de los que quisieran (Bernardi, 2005) y más tarde.
A través de cincuenta y nueve entrevistas presenciales y de una etnografía digital (Murthy, 2008), se han analizado las condiciones del mercado laboral y las relaciones de género como mecanismos de gobernanza reproductiva (Morgan y Roberts, 2012), para comprender los procesos de decisiones reproductivas de las parejas heterosexuales que tuvieron hijos/as a través de relaciones sexuales en un contexto de infertilidad estructural y, por lo tanto, a priori, desfavorable.
Los principales resultados de la investigación que aquí se presenta apuntan a que los regímenes morales (Morgan y Roberts, 2012) del mercado laboral y las relaciones de género producen “verdades” que enfatizan la dicotomía entre la feminidad – asociada a los trabajos reproductivos- y la masculinidad –asociada a los trabajos productivos-. Así, la madre es considerada la principal cuidadora de sus hijos/as y, en consecuencia, es una mala trabajadora. A pesar del aumento de la participación de los hombres en las tareas domésticas y de cuidados, las mujeres continúan siendo las principales responsables. El hecho de tener hijos/as sitúa a las mujeres como madres y, por lo tanto, se les asigna la responsabilidad de los trabajos reproductivos (enculturación, crianza y cuidados) en un tiempo indefinido, que sobrepasan los procesos biológicos (embarazo, parto y lactancia) temporalmente acotados.
Paralelamente, la maternidad es explicada como una opción donde las mujeres, supuestamente, pueden escoger. Pero las mujeres que tienen más hijos/as y más jóvenes son aquellas que entienden la maternidad como una etapa de su ciclo vital, sin plantearse otra opción que la de tener hijos/as. Para estas mujeres, la necesidad y las ganas de tener hijos/as aparece cuando se encuentran alrededor de los treinta años, tienen pareja, perciben una cierta estabilidad laboral y económica y tienen una vivienda.
En cambio, las mujeres que tienen hijos/as como un estilo de vida, tienen menos y más tarde. El énfasis en explicar la maternidad como una decisión influye en su intensificación (Hays, 1996; O’Reilly, 2004a), porqué se convierte en una opción elegida. Si no se quieren asumir las responsabilidades que se le asocian, supuestamente se puede escoger no tener hijos/as.
Las condiciones del mercado laboral, las relaciones de género y el hecho de explicar la maternidad como una elección, contribuyen a la bajada de la fecundidad en España. Mientras por un lado, cada vez es más difícil encontrar las condiciones adecuadas para tener hijos/as, por el otro, las madres serán consideradas automáticamente, las principales responsables de los cuidados y el ámbito doméstico.Spanish reproductive context has been described as “structural infertility” (Marre, 2009), because of the fertility declining occurred since the 70’s. The main reasons are the labour market conditions (Marre, 2009), feminist discourses that entangle woman freedom with non-motherhood (Marre, 2012 in Briggs et al., 2012), and the lack of public policies to support motherhood (Comas d’Argemir et al., 2016). However, most women have children in Spain, but later and fewer children than they would like to have (Bernardi, 2005). Through fifty-nine interviews and digital ethnography (Murthy, 2008), conditions in the labour market and gender relations at home have been analysed as mechanisms of reproductive governance (Morgan and Roberts, 2012). The main aim of this research is to understand the reproductive decision-making of heterosexual couples who have children through sexual intercourse in a structural infertility context. Results show that moral regimes (Morgan and Roberts, 2012) of the labour market and gender relations produce “truths” that focus on the femininity –reproductive work- and masculinity –productive work- dichotomy. The mother is considered the main carer of their children, consequently becoming a bad worker. Although men have increased their participation in caring and household, women still are the main responsible for it. Through having children, women become mothers. That means, through the biological events temporarily bounded (pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding) women become responsible for reproductive work (socialize, rear and care children) for indefinite time. Motherhood is explained as a question of choice, considering that women could choose to have or not to have children. However, women who understand motherhood as a step in the life course, without considering any other option, have more children and younger. The need and the wiling of having children appear when women are around thirty years old, they have a stable partner, economic or labour stability and have a place to live in. Otherwise, women who understand motherhood as a life style have fewer children and later. Explaining motherhood as a choice helps to the intensification of motherhood (Hays, 1996; O’Reilly, 2004a), because it is something that women choose. If women do not want to be responsible for reproductive work, they could choose not having children. Labour conditions and gender relations at home, together with the consideration of motherhood as a choice, make difficult to find the appropriate moment to have children, and if women have them they will be responsible for reproductive work. This situation helps to the fertility declining in Spain.
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Bergman, Helena. "Att fostra till föräldraskap : barnavårdsmän, genuspolitik och välfärdsstat 1900-1950." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-80876.
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The dissertation explores the Swedish child welfare officer system (barnavårdsmannainstitutionen) using gender as an analytical tool. The child welfare officer system was a public program designed to support single mothers and monitor the welfare of children born out of wedlock. The study concentrates on the first half of the 20th century, and particularly covers the introduction of this system in 1917/18 and the changes it underwent in 1938, after an income maintenance law (bidragsförskott) for children of unwed mothers was introduced. In 1917, Sweden was one of the first countries in Europe to introduce legislation that formalized men’s obligations towards children born out of wedlock. Consequently, state officials, called child welfare officers, were required to perform mandatory investigations of paternity. Their task was also to make sure that fathers provided economic support and mothers carried out sufficient care. The 1938 income maintenance law was one of the social policy initiatives of the 1930s. Single mothers were assured payment from the state for child support and the child welfare officers then sought to reclaim the money from the absent father. The history of the child welfare officer system is used as a case to investigate the power dynamics of gender and class, and the relationship between the state, the social work professionals and the individual citizen, concurrent with the birth of the Swedish welfare state. The political debates, the institutional arrangements and the practices connected to this policy area have been analyzed. Thus, politicians, social workers and unwed mothers and fathers are all brought into focus. An analytical point of departure is that the welfare state ”does gender”, i.e. that the welfare state regulates and directs the relation between men and women. However, the state is also treated as a complex and changeable entity, where state and welfare policy also functions as a means to change gender relations. Thus, the study argues that the introduction of the child welfare officer system opened up a new public arena for women – as politicians, social workers and as mothers – in which they were able to renegotiate the meaning of gender and their relation to the state. Prevalent ideas of gender were questioned and challenged in the public sphere of politics and labor as well as in the private sphere of the family. The study consists of a number of empirical chapters in which this social bureaucracy is scrutinized from various perspectives. The child welfare officer system is analyzed both on a national and local level. The latter is done through a case study of the local work in Stockholm. Gender was a vital component to all these levels.
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Livingston, Katherine G. "Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificates and the Politics of Birthmotherhood in Ohio, 1963-2014." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461068976.
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Sommer, Heather J. "Of Crimes and Calamities: Marie Antoinette in American Political Discourse." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1532967916465092.
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Gibbons, Meghan K. "Essentially powerful political motherhood in the United States and Argentina /." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/6908.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Comparative Literature. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Barbagallo, Camille. "The political economy of reproduction : motherhood, work and the home in neoliberal Britain." Thesis, University of East London, 2016. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5177/.
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This thesis investigates how the processes and practices of reproduction have been transformed not only by the ascendant political rationality of neoliberalism but also by women’s struggles that have reconfigured motherhood, the domestic home and the gendered organisation of employment. Through exploring both the 1970s feminist demand for “free 24- hour nurseries” and the contemporary provision of extended, overnight and flexible childcare, care that is often referred to as “24-hour childcare”, the research contributes to feminist understandings of the gendered and racialised class dynamics inside and outside the home and the wage. The research repositions the ‘Woman Question’ as, yet again unavoidable and necessary for comprehending and intervening in the brutalising consequences of capitalist accumulation. Situated within the Marxist feminist tradition, the work of reproduction is understood as a cluster of tasks, affective relations and employment that have historically been constructed and experienced as ‘women’s work’. The interrelation between the subjectivity of motherhood and the political economy of reproduction is analysed through a feminist genealogy of 24-hour childcare in Britain. Using ethnographic encounters, archival research and interview data with mothers and childcare workers, the research tells a story about the women who have worked both inside and outside the home, raised children, cooked and cleaned, and who, both historically and in the present, continue to create an immense amount of wealth and value. As women's labour market participation has steadily increased over the last 40 years, the discourse of reproduction has shifted to one in which motherhood is increasingly constructed as a choice. Within neoliberal discourse the decision to have a child is constructed as a private matter for which individuals bear the costs and responsibility. The thesis argues that, as a result of motherhood being constructed more and more as something that is chosen, the spaces of resistance and opposition towards motherhood have been limited and resistance has been individuated and privatised.
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Clark, Sara Anne. "Hosting in Costa Rica| A mix of money and motherhood." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1587114.
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This thesis explores perspectives of 30 women hosting international students in a rural, coastal town in Costa Rica through an International Studies lens — interdisciplinary, critical, and bridging theory and practice. Analysis of 30 semi-structured interview sessions, which included 2 questionnaires, conducted over 10 weeks living with 3 host mothers contributes to understanding the impact of study abroad on host families. Hosting is discussed as a preferred form of paid care work in that it is flexible and enjoyable. Women host for the income as well as for the joy of mothering students. Host perspectives are shared regarding benefits and challenges of and lessons learned from hosting. Recommendations are made for homestay program administrators and international educators, including recommendations for addressing power dynamics to ensure reciprocal exchanges.
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Whetstone, Crystal M. "Nurturing Democracy in Armed Conflicts through Political Motherhood: A Comparative Study of Women’s Political Participation in Argentina and Sri Lanka." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1595499962357242.
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Ahall, Linda Terese. "Heroines, monsters, victims : representations of female agency in political violence and the myth of motherhood." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1727/.
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By using a poststructuralist feminist perspective, this thesis argues that representations of female agency in political violence are told as stories of heroines, monsters and victims through a Myth of Motherhood. I conceptualise the myth as a meta-discourse constituted by different discourses within each type of story. In all stories, a tension between identities of life-giving and life-taking is present which means that motherhood is ‘everywhere’ albeit not necessarily visible. Thus, these stories are versions, perversions and inversions of motherhood. In heroine stories, this takes place as the subject’s heroism is communicated through motherhood/lack of motherhood. In monster stories, the myth is communicated as ‘natural’ femininity is emphasised and defined as that which the monster is not. In victim stories, female subjects are denied agency which means that a life-taking identity is removed whereas a life-giving identity is promoted communicating the Myth of Motherhood. I argue that motherhood is not simply a discourse denying women agency in political violence, but also instrumental as to how agency in political violence is enabled. As such motherhood is ‘everywhere’ in representations of female agency in political violence and fundamental in order to understand how representations of female agency in political violence are gendered.
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Murray, De lopez Jenna. "Becoming (m)other : political economy and maternal transition in urban Chiapas." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/becoming-mother-political-economy-and-maternal-transition-in-urban-chiapas(c023a170-3294-4e15-b783-ef3a0ec0a4cf).html.
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Based upon fieldwork in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, South East Mexico, this thesis is about how mestiza women in a low-income barrio become mothers. As such, it is an engagement with theories of embodiment, maternal subjectivity, transformation of self and gendered modernities. The chapters are intended to evoke discussion around the roles that mestiza women, the wider Mexican society and the state play in simultaneously embracing and rejecting constructed notions of the good mother. Competing notions of good motherhood come about through local practices and ideals, and also through discourses of risk and global health. The thesis is structured so that the corporeal processes of maternity (pregnancy, birth and nurturing) provide a common and interlinking theme which also demonstrate maternal transition as a life event akin to others. In doing so, this thesis is ultimately about the way in which gendered beings experience change. I intend this thesis to be both a political and theoretical project which highlights the lives of a community of women in a particular moment in their history. This thesis provides further evidence for the need to formulate new global theories of change that foreground gender in global processes. The women I met during fieldwork, and whose narratives have shaped the direction of this thesis, show that when individuals have recourse to a mixed economy of health care and are not reliant on state intervention, it can result in an outcome that better meets with the woman’s expectations. Women’s combined use of lay and clinical services reveal ways in which they make active attempts to avoid negative pre and postnatal experiences. In doing so, they embody a maternal identity that is deeply rooted in local ways of being-in-the-world. By managing the process of maternity more akin to local ways of thinking about gendered personhood, the women reveal how social change is both assimilated and contested in daily life.
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SILVA, BEATRIZ ANDRADE MELO DE S. E. "THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEMALE POLITICAL SUBJECT IN BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA THROUGH THE MEMORY PATH AND THE NOTION OF THE POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION OF MOTHERHOOD." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=36215@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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This work analyses the development of a female political subject in Brazil and Argentina in the 1970s through the memory path and the notion of the political socialization of motherhood. For this purpose we compared two groups: the Mothers of the Square of May (Argentina) and the Women s Movement for Amnesty (Brazil). The historical differences in schooling and civic culture in the two countries, coupled with the intrinsic distinctions of each repressive system, gave rise to specific political opportunities. It was possible to observe throughout the documentary analysis of these two groups the construction - in a similar way, from the social representation of maternity, linked to the private sphere - a strategy of insertion in the public sphere. This strategy brought in its process the construction of a female political subject. In this way the struggle for memory within the perspective of the political socialization of motherhood becomes an element of the construction of a subject conscious of its capacity for action in the public sphere. In this perspective, after the re-democratization in the two countries, the trajectories of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Women s Movement for Amnesty (MFPA) showed that what happened in Argentina was the construction of a social movement that brings together the defining elements of this concept, reaching its 40th anniversary in 2017. In Brazil, it was a social mobilization that, after the Amnesty Law in 1979, was fragmented into other movements or forms of action in the public sphere that became more dynamic in this country in the 1980s and 1990s.
Este trabalho faz uma análise da construção de um sujeito político feminino no Brasil e na Argentina, nos anos 1970, pela via da memória e da noção de socialização política da maternidade. Para isso, foram comparados dois grupos: Mães da Praça de Maio (Argentina) e Movimento Feminino Pela Anistia (Brasil). As diferenças históricas de escolaridade e cultura cívica nos dois países, somada às distinções intrínsecas a cada sistema repressivo, deram origem a terrenos com oportunidades políticas específicas. Foi possível observar ao longo da análise documental desses dois grupos que, de forma semelhante, construíram, a partir da representação social da maternidade, ligada à esfera privada, uma estratégia de inserção na esfera pública, que traz em seu processo a construção de um sujeito político feminino. Desse modo, a luta por memória, dentro da perspectiva da socialização política da maternidade, torna-se elemento de construção de um sujeito consciente de sua capacidade de ação na esfera pública. Dentro dessa perspectiva, as trajetórias posteriores às redemocratizações das Mães da Praça de Maio e do Movimento Feminino Pela Anistia (MFPA) mostraram que o que se deu na Argentina foi a construção de um movimento social, que reúne os elementos definidores desse conceito, completando 40 anos em 2017; já no Brasil, tratou-se de uma mobilização social que, após a Lei de Anistia em 1979, se fragmenta em outros movimentos ou formas de ação na esfera pública, que se dinamiza no país nos anos 1980 e 1990.
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Tian, Xiaosu. "It’s the Only Thing I Can Do: Intensive Mothering and Sustainable Lifestyles." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108935.
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Thesis advisor: Juliet B. SchorWhy do mothers practice a sustainable lifestyle? While existing literature views motherhood as a motivating factor that encourages women to adopt sustainable practices, this article conceptualizes women's desire to live sustainably as an outcome shaped dialectically with the material experience of mothering. Drawing from interviews with eight mothers who self-identified as interested in living sustainably, this study shows that intensive mothering creates time scarcity in mother schedules, discouraging women from acting upon their ecological concerns, and exacerbates their reliance on eco-intensive options. Women adopt sustainable practices to compensate for their current inability to create institutional changes through political channels. By investing in the immaterial qualities of these practices, women pass on cultural resources that enable their children to facilitate institutional changes. Mothers' efforts in cultivating children's eco-friendly dispositions are not only a symbol of "good" mothering but also a marker of the boundary between the household and the market. My findings contextualize the formation of ecologically oriented taste within the experience of mothering and present an alternative approach to understanding why women engage in a sustainable lifestyle. This article also holds insights for explaining the relationship between engagement in a sustainable lifestyle and participation in the formal political process
Thesis (MA) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Cravens, Brittany. "Surrogacy Law?: The Unparalleled Social Utility of Surrogacy and The Need for Federal Legislation." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338487474.
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Woodburn, Shae A. "MOMS GO POLITICAL: MATERNALISM IN THE NATIONAL WELFARE RIGHTS ORGANIZATION AND WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1587649557147741.
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Jansson, Maria. "Livets dubbla vedermödor : Om moderskap och arbete." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-54780.
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There are conflicts between waged labour and motherhood that make it difficult for women to seize independence as workers and at the same time be mothers. These conflicts manifest themselves in women’s everyday practices as well as in feminist theory and in the women’s movement. The purpose of the thesis is to study the construction of motherhood and labour, and how the meanings attributed to motherhood and labour uphold women’s subordination. It is a study of how motherhood and labour are used to naturalise the gender order and make it legitimate. This is done by analysing texts on childminders encompassing the period 1967 to 1999. In Sweden, childminders are often perceived as solving the conflict between waged work and motherhood in a specific way. Employed by the municipal authorities, childminders work at home, taking care of other people’s children as well as their own. However, solving one dilemma, they find themselves in another. Working with children in the confinement of the home is not seen as a “real job” as long as it is connected to motherhood. The struggle of the childminders to count as “real” workers is a tale of their separation from motherhood. In the study, perceptions of motherhood and labour are seen as expressions of gender relations, which means that motherhood and labour are seen as equally gendered and structured. In political theory, labour is seen as the key to property in the person, as well as representing labourers’ contribution to society. This understanding of work renders it crucial to theories of democracy, as it legitimises the worker’s political participation. The dissertation shows how this theoretical function of labour rests on constructing motherhood as the other, and mothers as incapable and illegitimate political subjects. Three key distinctions between motherhood and labour are distinguished and analysed. The first deals with the perception of motherhood as “being” and labour as “doing”. The second focuses on the conception that labour is a goal-oriented, rational activity whilst motherhood is seen as biologically determined with its own intrinsic values. In this view, motherhood can therefore not be understood as an activity that aims to transform. The third distinction is the opposition between the irreplaceability of the mother and the replaceability of labour power. The thesis concludes that strategies defining mother-like activities as labour presume that these activities are distinguished from motherhood. Paradoxically, when women in general become working mothers, leaving children at day-care, the biological aspect of motherhood is stressed, upholding motherhood as an institution. The differences construed between motherhood and labour are often naturalised and ascribed to women’s biology and double hardships: that they need to be both mothers and workers. This formulation makes it possible to manoeuvre and control women. Labour and motherhood can be used against each other in ways that grant men control over women, and at the same time deprive women of their power to act. Patriarchal power seems to be necessary to maintain the present underpinnings of democratic theory.
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Arendt, Emily Jane. "Affairs of State, Affairs of Home: Print and Patriarchy in Pennsylvania, 1776-1844." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417528942.
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Watson, Amanda. "Accumulating Cares: Women, Whiteness, and the Affective Labour of Responsible Reproduction in Neoliberal Times." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34566.
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This thesis examines contemporary popular and news media representation of motherhood and labour in Canada and the United States. I explore what texts about motherhood and maternal labour suggest about gendered responsibilities to citizenship in neoliberal conditions. Building on important feminist research in the fields of citizenship, care, and the welfare state, I ask how are mothers being socially responsibilized toward multiple forms of labour simultaneously and to what effect? By engaging feminist theories of citizenship and bridging this field with feminist theories of science, media, and affect, I demonstrate how, under neoliberal conditions and in precarious circumstances, the ways in which women appear to juggle their commitments to paid and unpaid labour, determines how mainstream discourses reflect their value as citizens. This dissertation uses feminist critical discourse analysis to assess how, as women are responsibilized toward unpaid intimate work in newly empirical ways at the same time that they are encouraged to pursue career success in full-time paid employment, contemporary women in Canada and the United States are encouraged to rise above welfare retrenchment and inadequate provision by juggling “it all.” My thesis is an intersectional feminist project that interrogates questions of gendered citizenship and maternal affect, and I join feminist political theorists in applying pressure to the field of citizenship studies to centre reproduction in discussion of gendered welfare.
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Menke, Katrin. "Familienpolitik." Universität Leipzig, 2018. https://ul.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A23360.
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Familienpolitik bezeichnet ein Politikfeld im Wohlfahrtsstaat, dessen Ziel es ist, das Zusammenleben in Familien im Lebensverlauf mit Hilfe von Zeit, Geld und Infrastruktur zu unterstützen. Die Definition von Familie hat sich ebenso wie das Politikfeld stetig gewandelt. Aus Perspektive der (intersektionalen) Geschlechterforschung lassen sich verschiedene historische Phasen seit Gründung der Bundesrepublik beschreiben. Von besonderer Bedeutung ist der paradigmatische Wandel der Familienpolitik seit der Jahrtausendwende: Im Zuge dessen etablierten sich zunehmend ein volkswirtschaftlicher Begründungszusammenhang für Familienpolitik und die Verknüpfung von Elternschaft mit Erwerbstätigkeit.
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Featherstone, Lisa. "Breeding and feeding: a social history of mothers and medicine in Australia, 1880-1925." Australia : Macquarie University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/38533.
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Thesis (PhD)--Macquarie University, Division of Humanities, Department of Modern History, 2003.Bibliography: p. 417-478.
Introduction: breeding and feeding -- The medical man: sex, science and society -- Confined: women and obstetrics 1880-1899 -- The kindest cut? The caesarean section as turning point -- Reproduction in decline -- Resisting reproduction: women, doctors and abortion -- From obstetrics to paediatrics: the rise of the child -- The breast was best: medicine and maternal breastfeeding -- The deadly bottle and the dangers of the wet nurse: the "artificial" feeding of infants -- Surveillance and the mother -- Mothers and medicine: paradigms of continuity and change.
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw profound changes in Australian attitudes towards maternity. Imbibed with discourses of pronatalism and eugenics, the production of infants became increasingly important to society and the state. Discourses proliferated on "breeding", and while it appeared maternity was exulted, the child, not the mother, was of ultimate interest. -- This thesis will examine the ways wider discourses of population impacted on childbearing, and very specifically the ways discussions of the nation impacted on medicine. Despite its apparent objectivity, medical science both absorbed and created pronatalism. Within medical ideology, where once the mother had been the point of interest, the primary focus of medical care, increasingly medical science focussed on the life of the infant, who was now all the more precious in the role of new life for the nation. -- While all childbirth and child-rearing advice was formed and mediated by such rhetoric, this thesis will examine certain key issues, including the rise of the caesarean section, the development of paediatrics and the turn to antenatal care. These turning points can be read as signifiers of attitudes towards women and the maternal body, and provide critical material for a reading of the complexities of representations of mothers in medical discourse.
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Artino, Serene. "To Further the Cause of Empire: Professional Women and the Negotiation of Gender Roles in French Third Republic Colonial Algeria, 1870-1900." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1342622253.
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Franks, Kristin N. "Exclusion at the Border: Female Smugglers in Maria Full of Grace and Frozen River." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1244470239.
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Huang, Ellie Yu-hui, and 黃瑜惠. "Politics of Ambiguous Bodies— Troping Monstrous Motherhood in Boy’s Love and Slash." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/nav9ze.
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With recent raising of popularity of BL and Slash, the textual reproduction of these particular subcultures has already developed many tropes in order to continue resonating with BL or Slash readers. Among those tropes, male pregnancy is the most controversial one because it tends to incite extreme reactions in the readers: people either hate it or love it. To understand male pregnancy through naming it as the monstrosity is to map out its relationship with the reality, and the critical status as a liminal being behind its hyperbolic expression. Therefore, I use male pregnancy as the starting point to select two texts from different cultures, i.e. Chinese-speaking and English-speaking, to draw a parallel study of the affective structure presented in the texts. By close reading into the nuance of different texts of male pregnancy, the structure of feelings on both textual level and the readers’ cultural situations demonstrates the specific emotional trajectories regarding the social issue of maternity. The texts becomes the reflections upon the social relations which constitute feelings like sentimental, angery or paranoid. To further the political possibility motivated by the affect of such ambiguous bodies in male pregnancy, I want to point out that mentality sustained by those feelings can buttress certain decision-making in the political issues, and the ambiguity is not only in the physiology but also in their unique flexibility presented in their liminal positionality. By tracking the changes within the myth of reproduction, we can try to understand more in this complicated situation in the societies which are obsessed over the dream of proliferation and reproduction.
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Marotta, Marsha Venuti. "From here to maternity: Motherhood, culture, and identity." 1998. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9823755.
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This dissertation considers the problem that maternal difference represents inequality and inferiority--either a stigma as mothers are forced to compete on abstractly "equal" terms with others (as if they were the same as others), or seen to represent a special condition in need of protection. It argues that maternal difference is the result of cultural representations of mothers as nurturing, selfless, and always available to whoever needs them. These images are crucial aspects of the process by which mothers constitute their selves and their lives and come to establish goals, aspirations, and relationships. Using the work of Michel Foucault and Luce Irigaray, the dissertation shows that these goals and aspirations may appear necessary, natural, and personal, but in fact are constructed by the symbolic meanings and values that create and regulate society and culture, and so are contestable. It is the symbolic meanings and values that create maternal difference as inequality and inferiority. The dissertation distinguishes three body concepts: the sexual, the pregnant, and the nonpregnant/maternal body with daily responsibilities for children. It focuses on the third body concept to show how "experts" shape the habits, behaviors, and attitudes of mothers by disciplining mothers and imposing cultural scripts on them that shape the material practices of mothers, the series of practices through which mothers are governed and come to govern themselves. When mothers try to match the prescriptive ideals of self-control, self-discipline, and self-sacrifice, they follow rules and regulations that make them socially adapted and useful. This changes the way they and others think about their bodies and their possibilities. Feminist, black, and lesbian mothers offer models of practices and attitudes that challenge the hegemonic norms of motherhood when they refuse many of the disciplinary practices of motherhood and establish such practices as cooperative and collective rather than privatized mothering, or egalitarian parenting. Future challenges involve reinventing the subject positions of mothers, in part by reconceiving notions of time and space to take into account the material variety of embodiment among mothers as well as new relationships between mothers and others.
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Barnes, Julia Corine. "Domestic tyrants changing political representations of motherhood in the contemporary Spanish novel /." 2010. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/barnes%5Fjulia%5Fc%5F201005%5Fphd.
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ČARNICKÁ, Hana. "Sociální aspekty v přístupu k rodičovství v České republice." Master's thesis, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-85443.
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The theme of my diploma project deals with an influence of social aspects on approach to parenthood. Many changes have happened in question of family behaviour during the last decades in the Czech society. The goal of my thesis is to contribute to understanding of social events, which influence formation of attitudes and immediate approach to parenthood of contemporary population and fitting research of these aspects to the wide scope of special socio-demographic factors. The first part of theoretical section concerns with historical changes in family behaviour and its contemporary trends. I also illustrate the list of basic demographic data connected with parenthood. The second part of the theoretical section describes development of family policy in the Czech Republic and its contemporary status. The main accent is focused on contemporary family steps. The third section is addressed to the research. It evaluate effectivity of contemporary steps of family policy of the state. Especially the influence of these steps on the parents decisions on their future parenthhod. This thesis ends with discussion and brief conclusion.
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Švejdová, Martina. "Mateřství z pohledu žen tří generací." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-414977.
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The topic of this work is a comparison of the perception of family policy and its tools from the perspective of mothers of 3 generations. We are interested in how these women evaluate family policy and its tools during their pregnancy and motherhood, as well as its changes over time. The aim of the thesis is to find out the perception of selected mothers during their motherhood from the point of view of social policy instruments that respond to the needs of motherhood, from the point of view of ways the state supports motherhood, from the point of view of perception of time course of motherhood and social view of mother and family. Based on the research goals, we set 3 main research questions. 1) How has the perception of motherhood within family life changed in the perspective of mothers from 3 generations? 2) Has the change in social policy instruments supporting families been reflected in the perspective of mothers from 3 generations? 3) How do mothers from 3 different generations perceive changes in family policy over time? At the beginning of our research, research preparation is carried out, mainly with the help of professional literature. The research itself is carried out using the focus group method with mothers from 3 generations, which are divided into 3 time categories for better...
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Kostelecká, Hana. "Politický diskurz neplodnosti v období 1989 - 2012 v České republice." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-335904.
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This thesis describes and analyses discourses that preceded the legislation changes regarding assisted reproduction in connection with setting an upper age limit for women who are undergoing assisted reproduction treatments in socialist system as well as in democratic system. This work defined discourses of both political systems compares with the accent on governmentality as a tool for population control. This analysis is valuable primarily because of describing principles of working the whole "system of assisted reproduction" and provides insight into the political discourse of infertility, respective on its part concerning the Czech legislation taking into account the phenomenon of reproductive tourism. No one from the topics - both the political discourse of infertility then the reproductive tourism have not had been in the Czech literature written up yet. The work shows the establishment of proper parenting standards in the political discourse through the topic of artificial insemination. Key words Infertility, assisted reproduction, reproductive tourism, discourse, frames, normality of motherhood, prekarization of infertility, governmentality, biopower, Michel Foucault
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Knotová, Rudolfína. "Zakládání rodiny u vysokoškolaček v souvislostech české rodinné politiky." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-330469.
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This master thesis "Undergraduates establishing their families in the context of the family policy in the Czech Republic" offers a new view upon a dilemma of college-educated women within the Czech society in establishing their families - it is focused on the parenthood strategy during the university studies. The thesis provides analysis of both positive and negative aspects of the parenthood decision and it investigates what sort of support is given to the undergraduate mothers in the Czech Republic. Measures that could be introduced to the framework of family policy in order to create suitable conditions for the undergraduates establishing their families during the studies are proposed. Subjective views of seven respondents, describing their life as an undergraduate mothers, are included in the analytical part to help approach the undergraduate parenthood strategy development. The key underlaying basis for this thesis is the assumption that undergraduate parenthood could be a suitable life strategy for a number of women undergraduates, should the government support improve.
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Machová, Monika. "Postavení žen na trhu práce a rodičovství." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-387274.
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The status of women on the labour market and motherhood The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the position of women in the labour market in selected countries representing different models of family policy. The analysed countries are the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. As first step, there are introduced conditions for the reconciliation of work and family life in selected countries and in the context of legislative of European Union. As second step, there are analyzed the level of fertility and the position of women in the labour market. There are also examined impacts of reconciliation of work and family not only on reducing the impact of parenthood on women's employment, but also on the level of fertility. The last part of this thesis deals with the evaluation of the respondent's opinions from International Social Survey Programme 2012 by average scores and binary logistic regression. Topics of analysed questions are the employment of mothers with young children and the division of roles in the family. The results confirmed that in countries with better conditions for the reconciliation of work and family there are smaller impacts of parenthood on women's employment also there are higher fertility rates. In the Czech Republic, there are most...
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Ramsay, Georgina Kathleen. "Beyond resettlement as refuge: enduring and emerging dimensions of ‘displacement’ as cosmological rupture for Central African refugee women." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1312171.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)The resettlement of refugees to a third country is characterised in dominant humanitarian and political discourses as a durable solution to ‘displacement.’ This thesis challenges that presumption through an ethnographic exploration of how ‘displacement’ is experienced by Central African women living in different contexts of refugee settlement in Australia and Uganda. It illustrates how, for the small number of refugees who are offered resettlement to a third country, a sense of ‘displacement’ can both endure and emerge within such settings. ‘Displacement’ is critically explored here as an embodied experience that is oriented through the subjectivities of Central African women across settings of refugee settlement in both Australian and Uganda. Through a comparative, in-depth analysis of ‘displacement’ in both contexts, the assumption that resettlement offers a durable solution of ‘refuge’ is critically unsettled. The thesis draws on 18-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork with Central African refugee women resettled across regional towns and urban settings in Australia, as well as a shorter period of fieldwork with Central African women living as refugees in Uganda. In documenting experiences of ‘displacement’ from the subjectivities of the Central African women, refugee settlement emerges here as a process that is oriented for them through cosmological logics of regenerative flow. Broader insecurities of ‘displacement’ manifest within, and are expressed through, the women’s everyday practices of cultivating plant foods, cooking food, and bearing and rearing children. In particular, it is the capacity to contribute to this regenerative flow of life through existing as ‘mother’ that is a fundamental basis of their sense of stability and ‘refuge’; or, conversely, rupture and ‘displacement.’ Subsequently, for the Central African women who participated in this research, ‘displacement’ cannot be mechanistically reduced to the socio-spatial and politico-legal shifts that are encompassed within experiences of forced migration. ‘Displacement’ is the experience of having their cosmological logics of regenerative continuity ruptured within the conditions of their settlement. The thesis thus transcends static notions of refugee ‘displacement,’ to consider instead the lived experience of being displaced as an existential condition of cosmological rupture.
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Reitz, Anne Catherine. "Reforming the state by re-forming the family: imagining the Romantic mother in pedagogy and letters, 1790-1813." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2170.
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Alary, Anouck. "La conservation autologue de sang de cordon ombilical : une ouverture sur une forme émergente de «citoyenneté biologique»." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/16231.
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La transformation du sang de cordon ombilical en une précieuse source de cellules souches a, dès le début des années 1990, donné naissance à une industrie commerciale globale de conservation faisant désormais concurrence à un large réseau de conservation public. Ce mémoire cherche à comprendre et à expliquer les soubassements socio-culturels liés à l’émergence de cette industrie, ainsi qu’à mieux cerner les enjeux éthiques et politiques qu’elle pose. En exposant en premier lieu la manière dont les institutions publiques de conservation de sang de cordon se définissent, et sont généralement définies par les comités bioéthiques, comme étant porteuses des valeurs d’altruisme et de solidarité nationale traditionnellement liées au modèle « redistributif » d’échange de sang et d’organes né au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, nous problématisons la manière innovatrice par laquelle les banques privées structurent le rapport entre les mères et leurs propres produits biologiques comme l’expression d’une reconfiguration du lien social et politique caractérisée par l’émergence de nouvelles socialisés. L’hypothèse au coeur de ce mémoire est que celles-ci peuvent être comprises comme l’aboutissant de l‘espoir collectivement partagé par les consommatrices d’améliorer leur propre condition biologique familiale, étant lui-même le fruit d’une financiarisation croissante des sciences du vivant. En analysant le discours « promissif » que représente le matériel promotionnel des banques autologues, notre objectif est alors d’identifier la manière par laquelle les multiples potentialités attribuées au sang de cordon définissent des subjectivités maternelles caractérisées par des obligations morales spécifiques.The recent transformation of cord blood to a precious source of stem cells has given rise to a global commercial industry of conservation, which is now competing with a large network of public cord blood banks. This dissertation explores the socio-cultural context surrounding the emergence of that industry and aims at elucidating the ethical and political concerns that it generates. It begins by examining how public cord blood banks define themselves (and are defined by ethical commitees) as purveyors of values such as altruism and national solidarity -that is, values which were traditionally linked to the « redistributive » model of human blood and organs exchanges that emerged after World War II. It next argues that private banks are bringing about a radical transformation of the relationship between mothers and their biological “products”. This dissertation suggests that this innovative model of exchange is an expression of contemporary reconfigurations of the very notion of community, which is now characterized by what we call new forms of “biosociality”. Our hypothesis is that these new socialities can be understood as the consequence of a collective hope to improve familial biological conditions, which is itself the product of the growing financiarization of life sciences. By way of a foray into the « promissive » discourse employed by private banks for their promotional material, the dissertation attemps to identify how these potentialities attributed to cord blood define new maternal subjectivities characterized by specific moral duties and obligations.
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Grobbelaar, Maryna Susanna. "Stories of mothers with differently abled children." Diss., 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/586.
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A group of eight mothers of differently abled children undertook a research journey, reflecting on the sorrow
and pain, as well as the hope and humour of our lives. Narrative pastoral practices guided our
conversations, and prophetic and political challenges our actions to bring about change in our lived reality.
Reflective and summarising letters after each group meeting played a central part In the research. The
letters were structured to make visible the "taken-for-granted truths", which informed us about who and
what we are. The alternative stories of preferred mothering practices that emerged during and between
sessions were centralised in the letters. The group compiled letters of appeal to the faith community,
doctors, nursing staff, therapists and teachers in order to make them more sensitive towards differently
abled people and their families.Practical Theology
M.Th. (Practical Theology)