Abstract
This paper is an autoethnography attempting to make sense of the experiences of two academic females who become mothers. The autoethnographic method allows us to discuss cultural phenomena through personal reflections and experiences. This paper explores contemporary motherhood discourse(s) and its discursive practices by drawing on Foucault’s elaborations on discourses and its relation to knowledge and truth. Our personal experiences combined with intellectual elaborations lead us to believe the role of the mother continues to be dominated by gendered discursive practices. Once women become mothers, they are othered through societal and organizational practices because they constitute a visible deviation from the masculine norm in the organizational setting. Finally, we discuss possibilities of resistance in the Foucauldian sense towards the contemporary motherhood discourse(s).
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