Constructing Breadwinning-Mother Identities: Moral, Personal, and Political Positioning

[...] I briefly review existing research on female breadwinners and situate this study within feminist poststructuralism and discursive positioning theories. [...] ways of making sense of mothering identities can also serve to abdicate some fathers of their caregiving responsibiUties. [...] while we...

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Published in:Women's studies quarterly 2009-10, Vol.37 (3/4), p.140-156
Main Author: Medved, Caryn E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Caregivers
Child care
Children
Construction (Process)
Data collection
Definitions
Discourse Analysis
Earnings
Families & family life
Family Practice (Medicine)
Fathers
Females
Feminism
Gender identity
Heads of Households
Husbands
Interpersonal Relationship
Labor
Males
Men
Middle class
Mothering
Mothers
Multiple Motherhoods
Political identity
Politics
Post structuralist linguistics
Self Actualization
Self concept
Social change
Social interaction
Spouses
Stay at home mothers
Subjectivity
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Women
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Summary:[...] I briefly review existing research on female breadwinners and situate this study within feminist poststructuralism and discursive positioning theories. [...] ways of making sense of mothering identities can also serve to abdicate some fathers of their caregiving responsibiUties. [...] while we often talk of "doing gender," we less frequendy see the complexity of actuaUy "doing" it until we actuaUy look for contradictions and multiple interpretations as put forth by poststructural theorizing.
ISSN:0732-1562
1934-1520