Bringing Home la Leche: Expanding Teachers’ Maternal Roles in Rural Oaxaca

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayne Howell
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Roles

‘Here in India’: Nineteenth-Century British Women Navigating their Position in the Empire through Children's Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-185
Author(s):  
Jesse Aberbach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Infants And Children ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Female Writers ◽  
And Control ◽  
Botanical Study

This article considers how the children's books written by two nineteenth-century female writers, Eliza Tabor and Mary Martha Sherwood, when they accompanied their husbands to India, enabled them to navigate this new environment and their position as respectable middle-class women while revealing how India was deemed a place where British childhood was impossible. Just as many women took up botanical study to legitimise their ‘otherwise transgressive presence in imperial spaces’ (McEwan 219), writing for children enabled others to engage with the masculine world of travelling and earning money without compromising their femininity. Addressing their work to children also seems to have helped both writers to deal with the absence of their own children: the Indian climate made it impossibly challenging for most British infants and children. In this way their writing gives expression to what might be termed a crisis of imperial motherhood. Underlying the texts is an anxiety relating to British settlement and an attempt to comprehend and control a place that threatened their maternal roles.

Coping with Conflict between Professional and Maternal Roles

1981 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia A. Gilbert ◽  
Carole Kovalic Holahan ◽  
Linda Manning
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Roles

Attitudes toward maternal roles and the effects on life satisfaction: Black, hispanic, and white models

2006 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darlene C. DeFour ◽  
Tamara Mose Brown
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Maternal Roles

Tensile Strength

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-144
Author(s):  
Peggy Wang
Keyword(s):  
Tensile Strength ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Female Figure ◽  
Contemporary Chinese Art ◽  
Women's Art ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Contemporary Chinese ◽  
Different Parts

In studies of contemporary Chinese art, Lin Tianmiao’s work has been overwhelmingly discussed in terms of women’s crafts and maternal roles. Citing her use of embroidery and the female figure, these interpretations have led to broad and often simplified characterizations of her work as “women’s art.” In focusing exclusively on symbolic allusions to gender representation, these discussions overlook the possibility of more complex narratives arising from Lin’s artistic concerns. By starting from the formal, material, and spatial components of her work, this article reveals how Lin has enacted penetrating investigations into manifestations of resistance and tension between physical forms and objects. Replete with taut lines and trembling vibrations, her work scrutinizes the nature of her materials, their limitations, and relationships among different parts of an installation. By tracing such formal and spatial devices, this article reveals three central topics at the heart of Lin’s oeuvre: the insufficiency of language, the urgency of form, and latent visibility. The exploration of these abstract concepts helps us move away from overt symbolic readings of her materials. These topics help show how Lin uses her art as tactics of intervention for interrogating practices of classification in contemporary Chinese art. As such, this article does not discount commentary on identity or gender but, rather, allows for richer, interrelated frameworks for understanding both her work and how it has been historically treated.

Mothers and Daughters in the Medieval Greek World

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Herrin
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Maternal Education ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Mothers And Daughters ◽  
Profound Influence ◽  
Opt Out ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Greek World

This chapter surveys the pattern of the female life cycle that defined most possibilities for women in Byzantium, and explores elements of maternal education, together with the alternative that allowed women to opt out of procreation by dedicating themselves to Christ. It concludes that maternity obviously demanded a certain competence, which was passed through the generations by oral traditions; mothers, grandmothers, and other female relatives might have a profound influence. Within feminine monasteries, abbesses exercised a spiritual maternity over their younger nuns. But for the great majority who had no choice in the matter, maternal roles were constructed and reconstructed at every period, reinforcing the links between mothers and daughters and according women in Byzantium an unrivalled influence.

Unwilling and Unprepared: Collective Responsibility for Traumatic Wartime Motherhood

2020 ◽  
pp. 174387212096471
Author(s):  
Andreea M. Prundeanu-Thrower
Keyword(s):  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Child Trauma ◽  
Lord's Resistance Army ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Systemic Violence ◽  
Lord’S Resistance Army

What does it mean to mother children born of illicit wartime relations? This article examines the detrimental effects of motherhood as a patriarchal institution shaped by nationalism/ethnocentrism and its impact on “sentimental collaborators” in WWII France, survivors of genocidal rape in Rwanda, and returning Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) “wives” in Uganda. Using a corpus of written and oral testimonies by/about mothers of children born of war (CBOW), it argues that all mothers experienced trauma in their maternal roles and that communities were often complicit in perpetuating mother–child trauma post-conflict. Understanding such collective responsibility is crucial to our capacity to help future survivors of systemic violence.

Predicting Marital Satisfaction from Ideal and Actual Maternal Roles

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan R. Bollman ◽  
Walter R. Schumm ◽  
Anthony P. Jurich ◽  
Gyung Ja Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
The Ideal

This study analyzed marital satisfaction of husbands and wives as a function of the ideal and actual gender roles that they reported. As predicted, the interaction of ideal versus actual roles for wives as reported by the husbands was significant for both husbands and wives, but, contrary to our expectations, the interaction of wives' ideal and actual roles as reported by wives did not predict marital satisfaction for either set of spouses. The results agree, however, with previous research in which husbands' variables have been associated more strongly with marital outcomes than have wives' variables.

Birth Technology and Maternal Roles in Birth: Knowledge and Attitudes of Canadian Women Approaching Childbirth for the First Time

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 598-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Klein ◽  
Janusz Kaczorowski ◽  
Stephen J.C. Hearps ◽  
Jocelyn Tomkinson ◽  
Nazli Baradaran ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge And Attitudes ◽  
Maternal Roles ◽  
First Time
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