Engendering Motherhood by Mcmahon
Martha McMahon asked a sample of full-time employed mothers about their experiences of becoming and being mothers. Drawing on symbolic interaction to analyze the cultural associations between motherhood, morality, and the value of children, the author comes to insightful and politically relevant conclusions. The different circumstances by which women in her study became pregnant and came to have children, the author explains, had to do not simply with the transformation of personal identities but with the reproduction of inequality through the production of babies. The book illuminates the paradoxical character of motherhood: as both a socially determined, potentially oppressive role and one that also provides profound personal meaning that can expand the boundaries of women's lives. The author illustrates how an informed understanding of the impact of motherhood on women's identities provides an essential framework for a critique of dominant models of human relationships.
Martha McMahon received her undergraduate degree in sociology and economics from University College Dublin, Ireland, and her doctorate from McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. She is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where she teaches in the areas of gender, women and the environment, and qualitative methodology. She has also worked in a variety of government-sponsored programs in Canada for immigrant women, sole-support mothers, and women on social assistance.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781572300026 |
| ISBN 10 | 1572300027 |
| Title | Engendering Motherhood |
| Author | Mcmahon |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Guilford Publications |
| Year published | 1995-11-02 |
| Number of pages | 300 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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