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Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, Sadie P. Hutson, and Amber E. Kinser. "Mothered, Mothering & Motherizing in Illness Narratives: What Women Cancer Survivors in Southern Central Appalachia Reveal About Mothering-Disruption." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1221.
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Informed by a mothering-disruption framework, our study examines the illness narratives of women cancer survivors living in Southern Central Appalachia. We collected the stories of twenty-nine women cancer survivors from northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia using a multi-phasic qualitative design. Phase I consisted of women cancer survivors participating in a day-long story circle (n=26). Phase II consisted of women cancer survivors who were unable to attend the story circle ; this sample sub-set participated in in-depth interviews (n=3) designed to capture their illness narratives. Participants' illness narratives revealed the presence of: (1) mothering-disruption whereby cancer adversely impacted the mothering role ; and (2) mothering-connection , whereby the cancer experience motivatedmother-survivors. Participants' illness narratives reflected thatthe role of mother was the preeminent role for mother-survivor and whenever there was oppositional tension between the roles of mother and survivor , the women-survivors seemed to linguistically relocate away from the survivor role and toward the mothering role. As a result , women-survivors seemingly rejected medicalization of their identities by emphasizing their mothering responsibilities , something we term motherizing.
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Segal, Eleanor. "Mothering a child with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder learned mothering /." Click here for text online. The Institute of Clinical Social Work Dissertations website, 1994. http://www.icsw.edu/_dissertations/segal_1994.pdf.
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Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 1994.<br>A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
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Kampman, Kelley M. "Mothering on MATs: The Influence of Intensive Mothering and Biomedicalized Addiction Treatment on Opioid Addicted Women's Mothering Practices." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1612955976182.
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Ermann, Katja. "Mothering the Aggressive Child." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1554293326210054.
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Beausang, Elisabeth. "Childbirth and mothering in archaeology /." Gothenburg : Department of Archaeology, Univ. of Gothenburg, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0703/2006483161.html.
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Sousa, Amy Christine. "Mothering in Modern Disability Bureaucracies." Thesis, Boston College, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3728.
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Thesis advisor: Eve Spangler<br>Using a three article, mixed methods format, this dissertation will examine the profound pressures placed on women to conform to "good" mothering standards within the context of raising children with neurological disabilities. Furthermore, this work will offer critical insights into political and bureaucratic mechanisms that present barriers to mothers' advocacy on behalf of their children with neurological disabilities. * Article One will explore the cultural context and performance of intensive mothering as well as structural barriers to fulfilling the image of a "good mother" from the standpoint of middle class mothers raising children with neurological disabilities. * Article Two will consider low income mothers' experiences navigating bureaucratic support systems for children with neurological disabilities and situate those experiences within the context of the intensive mothering ideal. * Article Three will examine the bureaucratic systems designed by a patchwork of federal laws to support people with disabilities and their families and how these systems both aid and undermine mothers' achievement of the intensive mothering ideal. Ultimately, this work will be used to shape policy recommendations to facilitate mothers' increased access to needed supportive services for children with neurological disabilities<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2011<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Sociology
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Dos, Santos Andeline Julia. "Constructions of adoptive and foster mothering : a discourse analysis." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25683.
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Due to the ever-growing crisis of orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa, research into strategies of care remains a crucial pursuit. Models of care in the country currently range from informal to formal, including informal fostering / non-statutory foster care; community-based support structures; home-based care and support; unregistered residential care; statutory adoption and foster care; and statutory residential care. This research study focuses on the area of adoption and fostering. Existing adoption and fostering research, locally and internationally, concentrates on the adopted and fostered child with little consideration given to parents. Mothering adopted and foster children in South Africa is a specifically under-researched area. This research contributes within this field, specifically, by exploring how women who have adopted and/or who foster children construct mothering and how these constructions intersect with dominant discourses of mothering. This qualitative study utilises a postmodern and poststructuralist ontology, and both social constructionist and feminist epistemologies. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 adoptive and foster mothers and data were analysed through discourse analysis. Ten key discourses and eight main constructs emerged. Participants engaged with discourses of natural mothering, and good mothering in which the constructs of the good mother, the good adoptive mother and the good foster mother operate. These two broad discourses are informed by the construct of the family. Constructions of adoption and fostering are formed in relation to notions of the family; and this family construct also largely informs and is informed by the discourse of legitimate belonging, the construct of the child; and the discourse of collaborative parenting. These discourses and constructs have conversations with and are formed in relation to broader discourses of gender, race, culture and HIV/AIDS. Adoption and fostering occur in relation to discourses that operate within the institution and in relation to dealing with the institution as a construct. Finally, engagement with these discourses and constructs inform how the discourse of support is constructed in relation to adoptive and foster mothering. Through exploring these constructs and discourses in relation to one another, three key arguments emerged. The first relates to a mechanism of how the ideology of intensive mothering operates through the manner in which it constructs natural mothering and good mothering. The second conclusion reached is that ambivalence is a key component of the constructions of adoptive and foster mothers. Thirdly, the study indicates that the construct of the good mother, as it operates within the ideology of intensive mothering, is resistant to deconstruction. After proceeding through the analysis, and exploring how the findings intersect particularly with discourses within the ideologies of patriarchy, technology, capitalism and race, the study offers specific recommendations for the support of adoptive and foster mothers.<br>Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.<br>Psychology<br>unrestricted
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Brown, Rebecca R. "Mothering behind bars: the role of contact maintenance programs on the mothering identity of incarcerated women." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/32723.
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Master of Arts<br>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work<br>Lisa A. Melander<br>The number of women incarcerated within the American penal system has been increasing in recent years. Coinciding with this rise in the incarceration rate for women, there has been increasing concern regarding women parenting behind bars and how incarceration impacts a woman's identity as a mother. As such the purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between participation in contact maintenance programs at the Topeka, Kansas Correctional Facility and their resulting impact on identity work using a sample of 34 incarcerated mothers who participated in this contact maintenance program. Results revealed that through participation in contact maintenance programs incarcerated mothers begin to develop and sustain a more pro- social image of themselves as 'good mothers.' Foundational practices of parenting and the development and sustainment of the mother-child bond are reinforced to facilitate the development of a positive self-image and to lay the groundwork for successful parenting post- release.
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Ashie, Christina Anne. "Model minority mothering: biculturalism in action." Texas A&M University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/85907.
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This thesis traces the immigration of "model minority" mothers: Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean, from their home countries to the United States. It examines the
reasons women immigrate to the United States, the situations into which they immigrate,
and the ways that they adapt traditional East Asian modes of mothering and child rearing
techniques to life in the United States. This thesis finds that Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean women emigrate to the United States primarily under the direction of male
figures of authority. Motivators of their emigration include leaving poverty and war in
their own countries, joining husbands or potential husbands in the United States, hoping
to escape the cultural restrictions of their home countries, or becoming prostitutes. As
these women make their own way in the United States, they find themselves
encountering immense cultural difficulties, not the least of which is the alteration of their
role as mothers as they try to raise their children in an entirely new cultural context.
Despite the hopes of many of these women, what they find in the United States is not a
life of leisure and wealth; rather, they are forced into positions in which they must work
for long hours outside the home to provide economically for their families as well as
raise their children and care for the home. This thesis finds that memoirs, novels, biographies, autobiographies, narratives, historical accounts, and sociological data
highlight several major areas of adaptation for these women including: the differences in
these women's sense of community in America, their expectations of the educational
system in the United States, the reversal of power in the use of language between mother
and daughter, and the complex measures of adaptation to and rejection of U.S. cultural
norms that mothers must implement while raising their children. Rather than being
crushed by the labor that they must perform and the cultural adaptations that they must
make, these women willingly sacrifice their lives to build a base upon which their
children can succeed through the attainment of higher education leading toward upward
mobility.
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Jesson, Sharon G. E. "Loss of mothering, five mothers' stories." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ35840.pdf.
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Joyce, Amanda. "Mothering from jail : an exploratory study /." Available to subscribers only, 2005. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1083543291&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Daws, Anne Marie. "Mothers' other activities, employment, and mothering." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020541/.
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The study investigates mothers' engagement in "other activities", namely: voluntary work, unpaid caring, club activities, further education, recreational classes, and flexibly-organised leisure activities. A community survey of 376 mothers of primary school children was carried out in two towns in Northern Ireland, followed by indepth, semi-structured interviews with a subset of 20 middle class mothers drawn from the survey population. Quantitative and qualitative analyses show how participation is shaped by mothers' reasons for engaging in activities, also by structural and subjective factors such as the social class of their households, their employment decisions, their family responsibilities, their feelings about income, and about partner support with childrearing and domestic life. A concept of an ethic of care for' self' and' other' is drawn upon to analyse the women's reasons for participating in activities, also for their employment decisions, and concepts of 'justice' and 'entitlement' are used to explore facilitators and constraints on participation. Concepts of 'achievement-oriented' and 'relationshiporiented' are developed and applied to their approaches to mothering, which are shown to blend concerns with children's achievement and emotional wellbeing. Linkages are explored between these approaches and the women's involvement in other activities and paid employment. The qualitative analysis draws attention to ambiguities and inter-connections between paid and unpaid wor~ mothering and other activities, and between 'self and 'other' concerns in these areas. In survey and interview analyses, spending higher hours in chosen activities is shown to go along with greater emphasis on an achievement-oriented approach to mothering, in which mothers aim for children's educational and occupational success and/or behavioural conformity, and lower hours in such activities with greater emphasis on a relationship-oriented approach, in which mothers focus on the quality of the mother-child relationship, and on the child's emotional wellbeing and capacity for sensitive responsiveness to others.
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Dorgan, Kelly A., Kathryn L. Duvall, and Amber E. Kinser. "Surviving Cancer and Mothering in Appalachia." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1259.
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McBride, Noelene J. "Mothering matters: Being prepared to care." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2000. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36633/1/36633_Digitised%20Thesis.pdf.
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This study focuses on understanding care provided by women who work as professional child carers. It provides knowledge of personal experiences and professional practices of professional carers and identifies how carers-in-training responded to statements about the caring role. Cultural feminist theoretical perspectives are adopted to theorise lived experiences of mothering and caring and to obtain insights into how personal experiences of being mothered influence professional caring practices with young children. Feminist methodologies supported the mixed-method, action oriented research design that also set out to record the subjective experiences of doing research. Six carers' personal experiences show being mothered as a significant factor in their professional care. Data from these six professional carers were used to survey carers-in-training to understand if there was a similar influence operating. The study provides insights into connections that existed between participants' experiences of growing up in relationships with their mothers and caring philosophies that continued to mediate their professional caring practices.
Findings from carers-in-training suggested that personal experiences have the capacity to influence professional caring practices. The study concludes with some recommendations for child care training programs.
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Soto, Carol. "The Process of Mothering an Obese Child." Thesis, Adelphi University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3663097.
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<p> Maternal influence has been identified as a crucial factor in identifying and predicting if a child will be obese and can influence children's future comorbidities if they are obese. There is a dearth of research focused literature on the mothers' perspectives in caring for a child with obesity. The purpose of this grounded theory study (Glaser & Strauss (1967)) was to identify a process of mothering an obese child. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 12 mothers. The transcripts of the interviews were coded, and coded data were then categorized and further analyzed to conceptualize a process. Three final phases, <i>realizing</i>, <i>limiting and eliminating</i>, and <i>doing something</i>, each with subcategories, explained the process of mothering an obese child. <i> Limiting and Eliminating</i> emerged as the core variable for this process. That is, mothers primarily used limiting and eliminating foods for their child, a strategy well known today to be ineffective for weight loss in children. Moreover, the mothers were not aware of many of the contemporary strategies for obesity intervention for children. This study's findings will inform health care professionals who work in both prevention and intervention settings with mothers of obese children and those at risk for developing obesity.</p>
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De, Smit Nicolette. "Mothering multiracial children : indicators of effective interracial parenting." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37287.pdf.
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Ward, Jennifer A. "The work of teaching/mothering, researching my practice." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0017/MQ54656.pdf.
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Matheson, Mary Lynne. "A narrative inquiry into mothering and child caregiving." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ59843.pdf.
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Mackay, Mary Ann. "The work of teaching/mothering, researching my practice." Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1882/595.
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Kirkland, Mary Elizabeth. "Mothering citizens: elite women in Montreal, 1890-1914." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106277.
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This thesis explores the activism of elite women in Montreal – Anglophone, Francophone, Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Jewish – between 1890 and 1914. In the form of a collective biography, I observe the twenty elite women who comprise this study in their homes, in the rituals of their class, in the work of philanthropy, and in active engagement with their local community and the world beyond Montreal. These women had a vision for society that went beyond social reform or securing the vote for women; one that was based on their experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and religion. Maternalist ideology as adopted by these early activists, built a framework for a brighter future, a better city, and a stronger nation. I argue that elite women twinned their role as mothers with their identity as citizens in order to create a realm of social and political influence for themselves. They placed the family unit as the nuclear centre of society and extended this concept as a model to the community, nation, and international world. As maternalists, these women believed that they, as wives, mothers and especially as citizens, had an important role to play in shaping society. Through shared gender and class identities, they forged bridges across ethnic and religious divides which in turn provided them with influence and power in Montreal and beyond. What emerges from the sources is that these women were far from passive or content to stay in the shadows. They were intentionally political in the way they thought about and engaged their lives as citizens. But there were limits to their influence and the women studied here had to carefully navigate these boundaries. The onset of the First World War served to aggravate tensions that had long been simmering beneath the surface to the point that cooperation disintegrated and their power that had derived from their unity was markedly diminished.<br>Cette thèse porte sur l'engagement social et politique de femmes de l'élite montréalaise de 1890 à 1914. Pour ce faire, j'ai réuni vingt Montréalaises issues des communautés anglophones, francophones, protestantes, catholiques et orthodoxes juives en une biographie collective qui lève le voile sur leur vie domestique, les rituels propres à leur classe sociale, leur travail philanthropique, de même que sur leur engagement au sein de la communauté locale et élargie. Cet exercice de style m'a permis de mettre en évidence l'influence des identités de genre, de race, d'ethnie, de classe et de religion de chacune sur sa conception de la société. La mise en commun des expériences de ces femmes de l'élite montréalaise révèle également que leurs préoccupations étaient plurielles et qu'elles dépassent la seule question du suffrage féminin. L'idéologie maternaliste embrassée par ces activistes traçait les jalons d'un futur meilleur, d'une ville assainie et d'une nation plus forte. Ma thèse est que les femmes constituant ce corpus combinaient leurs rôles de mères et leurs identités de citoyennes afin de se tailler une place, un cercle d'influence, dans des sphères d'activité qui leurs étaient habituellement défendues, soit les sphères sociale et politique. Pour y arriver, elles ont placé la famille au cœur de leur conception du système social et ont transposé cette vision à la communauté, à la nation et au monde. En tant qu'épouses, mères, mais aussi en tant que citoyennes, ces maternalistes croyaient qu'elles avaient un rôle important à jouer dans la transformation de la société. Le fait qu'elles aient partagé les mêmes identités sexuelle et sociale leur a permis de se rapprocher. Ces similarités, jumelées à leurs différences ethniques et religieuses leurs ont conféré une influence et un pouvoir indéniable à Montréal et au-delà. Les sources consultées révèlent que ces femmes de l'élite montréalaise étaient loin d'être passives ou contentes de rester dans l'ombre. Leur engagement politique et citoyen était conscient. Leur influence comportait néanmoins des limites qu'elles durent apprendre à repousser avec doigté. Avec le déclenchement de la Grande Guerre, les tensions cachées qui existaient entre elles s'aggravèrent et il ne fut bientôt plus possible de coopérer. La séparation de ce groupe eut pour résultat de diminuer de façon notoire le pouvoir et l'influence que ces femmes de l'élite montréalaise avaient acquis en près de vingt-cinq ans.
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Pearse, Janet. "Ontario works : mothering and neo-liberal social policy." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31039.
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In 1995 the Government of Ontario introduced reforms that significantly changed the way welfare was delivered in the province. Welfare rates were cut and benefits became conditional on recipients participating in a workfare programme called Ontario Works. These reforms ignore women's responsibility for child care. Single mothers and their children will be the group most affected by these changes. Single mothers are interviewed about how these changes have affected them, with particular attention to their experiences with the Ontario Works programme and its impact on their ability to care for their children.
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Martin, Carol A. "Matriarchy and Nation : Mothering English Ballet 1920-1939." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.507109.
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Reynolds, Tracey Ann. "African-Carribean mothering : re-constructing a 'new' identity." Thesis, London South Bank University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.264946.
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Payne, Robert Oliver. "Reimagining the family? : lesbian mothering in French literature." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/41211.
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In the last two decades, gay and lesbian parenting has emerged as a highly contentious subject in France. The creation of the Pacte Civil de Solidarité in 1999 and the legalization of same-sex marriage and adoption in 2013 testify to the evolution of gay and lesbian parenting from a hidden practice into a public matter. The growing visibility of gay and lesbian parenting has coincided with the emergence of lesbian mothering as a literary theme. While texts portraying lesbian mothers remain small in number, the fact that most were published after 2000 suggests their being on the rise. This thesis engages with this nascent branch of French literature, focusing on ten texts published between 1970 and 2013. It thus encompasses the period from the birth of the modern gay and lesbian movement until the adoption of same-sex marriage in France. It shows how the texts both reflect changes to the family and contribute to political and theoretical debates on gay and lesbian parenting and, more broadly, to the redefining of mothering and family in twentieth- and twenty-first-century France.
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Cooper, Linda. "Extended mothering : maternal influences in daughters' higher education." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2014. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/332990/.
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As part of the process of widening participation in higher education there has been an accelerated growth in women’s access to undergraduate study. The main aim of this research is to understand generational differences in women’s opportunities to attend university in England. The mother-daughter relationship is used to explore the role played by mothers in their daughters’ education beyond compulsory schooling, at a time when transition from secondary education to university has become commonplace. An investigation is made into the strategies mothers are employing to improve their daughters’ higher education choices and prospects. Using a qualitative methodology, paired mothers and their adult daughters have shared their views through in-depth interviews that discuss education, class, feminism and mothering. The mothers’ home and school backgrounds are examined in relation to their daughters’ upbringings, to consider differences in social mobility between the generations. A Bourdieusian framework is used to provide a theoretical underpinning, including how middle class values are being reproduced through mothers’ transmission of their economic, social and cultural capital. Research findings reveal that mothers are providing their daughters with extended advantage to access a university education, often in contrast to their own backgrounds. Mothers are simultaneously maintaining their daughters’ lifestyle during the study years, supporting their daughters during a period of extended adolescence. This enhanced mothering practice is promoting a transformation in familial outcomes and challenges the historical norm of fathers’ class background determining women’s imagined futures. Overall the research found that despite significant social change the daughters’ generation is failing to engage with feminist issues. The daughters’ decisions to maintain stereotypical female roles challenge the continuing progress of equal opportunities for women.
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Cooper, Linda. "Extended mothering: maternal influences in daughters’ higher education." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2014. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/332990/1/Cooper_thesis_FINAL.pdf.
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As part of the process of widening participation in higher education there has
been an accelerated growth in women’s access to undergraduate study. The
main aim of this research is to understand generational differences in women’s
opportunities to attend university in England. The mother-daughter relationship
is used to explore the role played by mothers in their daughters’ education
beyond compulsory schooling, at a time when transition from secondary
education to university has become commonplace.
An investigation is made into the strategies mothers are employing to improve
their daughters’ higher education choices and prospects. Using a qualitative
methodology, paired mothers and their adult daughters have shared their views
through in-depth interviews that discuss education, class, feminism and
mothering. The mothers’ home and school backgrounds are examined in
relation to their daughters’ upbringings, to consider differences in social
mobility between the generations. A Bourdieusian framework is used to
provide a theoretical underpinning, including how middle class values are
being reproduced through mothers’ transmission of their economic, social and
cultural capital.
Research findings reveal that mothers are providing their daughters with
extended advantage to access a university education, often in contrast to their
own backgrounds. Mothers are simultaneously maintaining their daughters’
lifestyle during the study years, supporting their daughters during a period of
extended adolescence. This enhanced mothering practice is promoting a
transformation in familial outcomes and challenges the historical norm of
fathers’ class background determining women’s imagined futures.
Overall the research found that despite significant social change the daughters’
generation is failing to engage with feminist issues. The daughters’ decisions to
maintain stereotypical female roles challenge the continuing progress of equal
opportunities for women.
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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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Visick, Amanda. "Mothering by the book : constructions of mature student mothers' identities in the context of mothering and study practices and mother/child relationships." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/134972.
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This project investigates the development of mature student mothers’ identities in the dual contexts of constructions of the women’s at-home study practices and of their ‘responsibilities’ for their children’s development. Interviews were conducted with 23 women – all ‘new university’ students – and with their schoolaged children. I used discourse analysis focussing on language as performative and constitutive in order to understand positioning of, and by the women. I also drew upon critical developmental psychological theory and the concepts of discourse, intersubjectivity and dialogicality as epistemological resources in order to understand the women’s and children’s accounts. The methodology yielded a diversity of constructions of the women, these drawing upon a variety of discourses. The first empirical chapter addresses constructions of mature student mothers, the second, constructions of child development and the third, constructions of ‘influence’. The organisation of the empirical chapters reflects not only the importance I accorded to particular themes, but also the idea that separating mothers’ concerns and those of their children can be less fruitful in examinations of identity construction than addressing these together. The key issues that are a thread connecting the empirical chapters are time (requiring ‘balancing’ of social positions); change (in mothering practices and confidence); perceived ‘influence’ on children’s development, and relationships (including the ways in which identities are constructed in the ‘space in the middle’). Participants addressed these issues in different ways with some women positioning not spending ‘quality’ time with their children as meeting children’s developmental needs (addressed in Chapter Seven). Other important themes were mothering constructed as mundane and undervalued (in Chapter Five), children’s constructions of ‘roles’ as helpers (in Chapter Six) and perceived intersubjectivity in mother/child interactions (examined in Chapter Seven). In the concluding chapter I discuss the implications of the findings in terms of the contribution of the research to theoretical debates about motherhood, mothering and child development. I also reflect on my position as a mature student mother, examining my involvement in the research process and finally, suggest applications for the findings reported in the thesis.
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Lawler, Stephanie. "Mothering the self : a study of the mother-daughter relationship." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.296881.
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De, Ruiter Anne. "Traumatic burn injuries : mothering the acutely hospitalised adult child /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe19053.pdf.
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Lockwood, Kelly. "Mothering from the inside : narratives of motherhood and imprisonment." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 2013. http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/19282/.
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Two thirds of the 4,000 women who are in prison in England and Wales are mothers of dependent children. Imprisonment can severely alter, disrupt or even terminate mothering. However, there is a relative absence of empirical research within this area. Therefore, we know little of the meaning of mothering and motherhood for women in prison. The main aim of this research was to explore the way in which women in prison make sense of motherhood and construct their mothering identity. To achieve this, the analytical framework of biographical disruption was adopted and adapted; replacing chronic illness as the critical event with imprisonment. The study was underpinned by a narrative methodology to focus upon the ways in which the narratives of mothers in prison are constructed/ reconstructed and presented. In depth narrative interviews were conducted with 16 women. The interviews lasted between forty five minutes and three hours. The interviews were recorded, transcribed and then analysed using the Listening Guide. On the basis of those interviews, three different narratives were constructed, the Wounded Mother, the Unbecoming Mother and the Suspended Mother. The findings of this research illustrate that the relationship between imprisonment and biographical disruption is multi-faceted. Mothering identities can be fundamentally threatened, yet can also be reinforced. This research has also highlighted that it is often the compounding impact of repeated disruptions, culminating in prison that represents the most profound disruption to the mothering identities of women in prison. The implications of the research for policy and practice are also considered.
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Bemiller, Michelle L. "Mothering on the Margins: The Experience of Noncustodial Mothers." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1132168732.
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Dissertation (Ph. D.)--University of Akron, Dept. of Sociology, 2005.<br>"December, 2005." Title from electronic dissertation title page (viewed 10/16/2006) Advisor, Kathryn M. Feltey; Committee members, Nancy B. Miller, Cheryl Elman, Gay C. Kitson, Jan Yoder, Sarah Wilcox; Department Chair, John Zipp; Dean of the College, Charles B. Monroe; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.
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Del, Fabro Linda. "Mothers with arthritis : experiences in the stories of mothering." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2452.
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Motherhood has been described as an identity, a role, and a way of participating in life (Arendell, 2000; Farber, 2004). Motherhood has also been described as 'work', the care taking, nurturing and teaching of children (Francis-Connolly, 2000). Mothers with arthritis have reported difficulty in the tasks of parenting and household work (Allaire et al., 1991; Backman, Kennedy, Chalmers & Singer, 2004; Barlow, Cullen, Foster, Harrison & Wade, 1999; Grant, Cullen & Barlow, 2000; Reisine, Grady, Goodenow & Fifield, 1998), however, we know little about how a mother experiences these challenges. While the subjective experience of being a mother and having a disability is intrinsically linked to participation, health and social interaction (Farber, 2004), research has not been conducted on how mothers with arthritis experience mothering in the presence of arthritis, and how this experience affects their participation, identity and social interaction. This narrative research study asks "How is being a mother and doing motherhood activities affected by your arthritis?" Study objectives include:
1) Describe mothers' experiences of nurturing, teaching and caring for their children.
2) Describe how mothers understand and explain the effect of arthritis on their role of mother.
3) Describe whether or not this understanding changes how mothers participate and interact in their community.
Narrative inquiry was used to explore the experiences of eight married mothers with inflammatory arthritis who have at least one child (aged 0-18) living at home. Purposive sampling allowed representation of families from different communities, with children of different ages. Data collection included two in-depth interviews, participant observation, document review, and fine art painting. Data was coded and analyzed using narrative inquiry techniques (Coffey & Atkinson, 1996; Riessman, 1993; Sandelowski, 1991). Overarching storylines are presented as narratives that describe the mother's experiences of identifying with the role of mother, participation, fatigue and the social context in which mothering occurs.
This study contributes to the sparse body of literature on the impact of arthritis on participation in maternal practices and social interaction, informing health professionals about the experience of mothering with arthritis.
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Taylor, Sarah. "Mothering the fatherland : nationalism and gender in Eastern Europe." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7488.
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Although the study of nationalism has expanded over the last decade as nationalist movements have increasingly resulted in violent conflict, constructions of gender have not been widely recognised as integral elements of these nationalist projects. Through an examination of nationalist movements in two case studies, this thesis found that gender constructions are vital to the legitimation of nationalist movements.
The need to integrate gender (meaning the constructions of both men and women) into studies of nationalist movements stems from the fact that nationalism is a social phenomenon reliant on certain social norms and guidelines for its legitimacy. Nationalism and gender were examined through two thematic lenses, the politics of tradition and the politics of reproduction. The politics of tradition incorporates symbolic aspects of gender, in which the manipulation of tradition and history play a major part. The politics of reproduction are comprised of gender constructions based on the "natural" roles for men and women, such as father and mother. This section examines manifestations of gender constructions such as pronatalism and rape. These lenses were then used to examine two countries in which there were leadership legitimation crises, Romania and the former Yugoslavia. As socialist legitimacy was eroded in the 1980s, potential leaders in both countries sought to legitimate themselves through nationalist ideology. These nationalist movements, which occurred during both the late socialist and post-socialist periods, were highly gendered in their rhetoric and discourse.
Gender constructions were found to be vital in the demarcation of difference between national groups, and in the mobilisation of communities to achieve national projects. The symbolic and emotive elements of these gender constructions were used to create the perception of internal and external threats. Additionally, gender constructions were found to have long-term effects on ethnic relations, and, in the case of the former Yugoslavia, on the nature of violent conflict and prospects for peace.
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Griffin, Kate. "Pinning Motherhood: The Construction of Mothering Identities on Pinterest." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2014. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/6280.
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This research examines the new social media site, Pinterest, to uncover the processes through which mothers construct self- and public-identities. Despite being valued at over $3.8 billion dollars (Perez 2013), having an impressive user retention rate (Moore 2014), and having a highly gendered user base (Tekobbe 2013), Pinterest has been the site of limited sociological inquiry. Seventeen semi-structured qualitative interviews on mothering and Pinterest use were conducted with central Florida mothers who have a Pinterest account and at least one child between 6 months and 10 years old. Through analysis based in a grounded theory approach, three central themes emerged from the data: (1) mothers negotiate motherhood ideals, perpetuated through Pinterest, through drawing on gendered ideologies; (2) mothers' use of Pinterest both supports and impairs construction of positive self-identities, complexly overlapping with concerns of technology overuse; and (3) the compartmentalized nature of Pinterest facilitates the activation of multiple identities which allow 'escapes' from the pressures of motherhood and everyday responsibilities. Insights derived from this research can also be helpful in explaining the overlaps between online and offline identities, how women manage motherhood ideals, and the compartmentalization of self-identities.<br>M.A.<br>Masters<br>Sociology<br>Sciences<br>Applied Sociology
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Mitchell, Elizabeth Gay. "Different ways of seeing : the language games of mothering." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2005. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1191/.
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My thesis is original in placing together Wittgenstein's ideas of how language works, and arguments for the philosophical significance of the embodied and relational figure of the mother. I both use and resist a Wittgensteinian therapy to overcome the problem of the forgetting of the mother in philosophy. I begin with the problem of essentialism, important to Wittgenstein and to feminist philosophy. My reading of Wittgenstein finds an ignored lacuna between language and (female) experience. I add in to the debate the type specimen approach from botany. Adopting this approach enables me to avoid a classification which requires a true inner essence to mothering, and provides a way for me to denote the significant place of the language games of mothering in language games about women. I argue for a different symbol of the mother. I agree with Wittgenstein's account of language, but add to it. I show the importance of Wittgenstein's insight that although meaning is not fixed independently of use, use does not fix meaning in that I create new meanings for the figure of the mother. I argue, through an exploration of Wittgenstein's concept of `übersichtlichen Darstellung ; that Wittgenstein can help us to see the phenomena of our life differently, in a way that makes space for understanding female difference. His concept of a form of life provides such openings. As the Wittgensteinian agent seems distinctly un-female, I bring in the philosophy of Kierkegaard in my argument for a different relational self as mother. I argue for a Kierkegaardian flexible maternal self with mobile edges. I insert the language games of the mother into Kierkegaard's writing on women. My aim is a more adequate representation of a (true) reality. I use the work of John Wisdom to make a bridge between Wittgenstein and the narrative form, which I use throughout. Wisdom's strategy is to engage in unconventional reflection in looking for new ways of telling philosophical stories, and in finding new patterns of meaning in the familiar. I claim that the narrative form enables me to express the shifting essence of the mother and the diversity of mothers; and to acknowledge the silences which are part of the mother's story. My aim in this thesis is creative. I use Wittgenstein to create a new kind of relation to philosophy. I do not offer a correct reading of Wittgenstein or Kierkegaard. Instead, aided by the insights provided by feminist philosophy, I write in the language games of the mother to their ideas. Thus, I bring into existence through utterance a different, feminist philosophical symbol of the mother.
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Komporaly, Jozefina. "Configurations of mothering in post-war British women's playwriting." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34665/.
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While examining a selection of plays centred on the phenomenon of mothering, my thesis also investigates the interaction between theatre and feminism in post-war Britain, aiming to highlight mutual correspondences between women's theatre making and feminist agendas. I focus mainly on the period of second-wave feminism, but I also discuss the decade preceding the appearance of the Women's Liberation Movement, as well as its aftermath up to the mid-nineties. Scrutinising proto-feminist, feminist and post-feminist stances, I argue that several fifties women dramatists anticipated key concerns of the late sixties and seventies; and equally, that many playwrights active after the heyday of second-wave feminism revisited the climate of the seventies in an attempt to evaluate the transformations that have since occurred in women's lives. In this manner, I not only contextualise some of the major achievements and shortcomings of successive feminist interventions, but also elaborate on key changes that have taken place in the negotiation of dramatic form and content. Rather than privileging one dominant theoretical position and adopting its perspective for the purposes of my analysis, I connect the work of playwrights informed by different artistic positions and political convictions, in order to pinpoint the principle of co-existence and multiplicity. This aesthetic and ideological diversity in women's writing for the stage, characteristic of the past five decades, has been confirmed not only by the primary and secondary sources that I drew upon but also by the playwrights themselves, whom I interviewed. For most present-day female dramatists, as this thesis argues, contemporary British women's theatre is a space of experimentation and of confluence - in which the broad range of individual voices can situate themselves next to one another, without the urge to replicate an ultimate direction imposed by hegemonic political constraints or artistic platforms.
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Beaumont, Naomi. "Mothers, mothering and motherhood in late Anglo-Saxon England." Thesis, University of York, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10989/.
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Gjellstad, Melissa L. "Mothering at millennium's end : family in 1990s Norwegian literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6581.
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Wing-Quay, Vanessa. "The role of dissonance in the experience of mothering." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2007. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/32820.
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Maternal dissonance, a specific type of maternal cognition, has been researched little in terms of its importance for the mother. This lack of research has occurred despite the fact that general social discourse assumes the vital importance of dissonant cognitions, based on the notion of the 'perfect mother' image. In the research reported here, maternal dissonance was studies in relation to maternal well-being.<br>Professional Doctorate in Psychology
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Thomas, Elizabeth Ann. "Rural Place Experience and Women's Health in Grandmother-Mothering." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194952.
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The conceptual orientation of this study was informed by social ecology theory coupled with the concept of rural place, to investigate social processes embedded within the physical, social and symbolic environment affecting the health of rural grandmothers raising grandchildren. A modified grounded theory methodology was used to generate a middle range theory explicating the basic social process of rural grandmother-mothering. The Rural Grandmother-Mothering as Cushioning model explains how the rural place experience of the physical, social and perceptual environmental context influences the health of rural grandmothers raising grandchildren.This research has significance for the scientific community by demonstrating how place is fused with human experiences. Results can inform nursing interventions tailored to the unique social processes in rural settings and designed to promote the health of the increasing numbers of women engaged in grandmother-mothering.
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Harris, Kimberly Kay. "Single Mothers by Choice: A Nontraditional Alternative to Mothering." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625484.
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Savage, Sally. "Musical mothering: Middle-class strategies and affect across generations." Thesis, Monash University, 2019. https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/thesis/Musical_mothering_Middle-class_strategies_and_affect_across_generations/8786003.
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Musical mothering: Middle-class strategies and affect across generations is an intergenerational sociological study of ten middle-class mothers exploring the relationship between music and women’s mothering practices. Applying Bourdieu’s conceptual toolkit and feminist mothering theory, the study reveals a diversity of mothers’ stories to illustrate the joys and tensions in cultivating musical children. The findings show that music affords women deeper family connections, increased well-being and a means to be perceived as ‘good’ mothers. This study contributes to intergenerational studies of music and family life, highlighting how engagement with music – formally and informally – has significant consequences for mothering practices in Australia.
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Passantino, Andrea. "Master narratives, counterstories and identity mothering in a clinical setting /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Rollison, Lynn. "The impact of a difficult birth on mothering over time." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/55864.
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Existing literature about childbirth does not clearly address the relationship between women’s experiences of “difficult birth” and the meanings women create from those events. This research focuses on women who identified they experienced a difficult birth, as opposed to a traumatic birth a topic that has received some attention. The experiences of 12 women and how a difficult birth affects the mother and how she creates meaning about it over time were explored. I focus on the women’s perceptions about their ability to mother and on the relationship between the infant and the family. The women’s stories are analyzed through ethnographic-informed methods with a feminist perspective. The absence of information about women’s experience of difficult birthing and their subsequent mothering is due to the silencing of their voice and a lack of investigation into their concerns during childbirth.
This research identifies six themes common to the women’s stories: health care professionals who have the dominant or authorial voice; hospital staff, who share little or no information with the women about their care; women, who are made to feel inadequate by HCPs; women, who experience an absence or a lack of care or assessment; significant others who abandon the women; and, women who experience ethical situations concerning their own care and that of their infant. I conclude that mothering over time is deeply affected by the experience of difficult birth, despite the varied and diverse situations and the contexts of difficult births.<br>Graduate Studies, College of (Okanagan)<br>Graduate
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Rutherford, Robin. "Diapers and daybooks, interpreting the choices in mothering and teaching." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39874.pdf.
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Barkley, Patricia J. "Mothering and the social work profession, a multiple role analysis." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0005/MQ43987.pdf.
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Klein, Verena. "Mothering her self: mothers and daughters in Ethel Wilson's work." Trier Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2852062&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Barkley, Patricia J. "Mothering and the social work profession : a multiple role analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 1997. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=20490.
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Ten front-line maternal social workers were interviewed to determine how they are managing in terms of combining their work and family responsibilities. Supervisor support, and the effectiveness of family-friendly work place policies were explored. All agreed, that motherhood, has had a positive impact on practice including increased empathy and understanding, for both parents and children. The following workplace initiatives were determined to be helpful: flexible and predictable work hours; part-time options; and compressed-work-week. Despite half feeling unsupported by their supervisors, the majority indicated that they are managing well primarily due to flexible work hour scheduling. The attitude of supervisors, regarding the value of parenting, appears to be the key factor relating to their level of support. There was some indication of role conflict and much evidence of accommodation, including turning down supervisory/management positions, postponing education and restricting types of practice.
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Klett-Davies, Martina. "Lone mothering in Britain and Germany : balancing choices and constraints." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270943.
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