Construction Of Motherhood Research Articles

“Mother of my Contreye”: Elizabeth I and Tudor Constructions of Motherhood

“Mother of my Contreye”: Elizabeth I and Tudor Constructions of Motherhood

Legislative Constructions of Motherhood

Legislative Constructions of Motherhood

Conceptualising motherhood in twentieth century South Africa

This article attempts to move the debate around the political significance of motherhood beyond the two dominant themes in the literature, that of ‘collusion with patriarchy’ and ‘difference’ in black and white women's constructions of motherhood. The first privileges political discourse over an examination of women's own practice and social identity as mothers, while the second ignores historical evidence for overlapping meanings and common cultural influences among black and white women in the twentieth century. Motherhood cannot be reduced simply to a role imposed on women by men. While the proponents of ‘difference’ recognise this, they tend to apply this insight to black women only and to assume that black and white women have operated within quite separate and pure cultural domains. A more useful analysis of the significance of motherhood requires greater definitional complexity and more attention to history, which this article begins to do. While the values of peace and nurturing associated with mo...

Not June Cleaver: women and gender in postwar America, 1945-1960

1. Introduction: Women and Gender in the Postwar United States Joanne Meyerowitz Part I: Women and Wage Labor 2. When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown Xiaolan Bao 3. An Obligation to Participate: Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s Susan Rimby Leighow 4. Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era Dorothy Sue Cobble 5. Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years Susan M. Hartmann Part II: Activist Women and Their Organizations 6. Gender and Post-World War II Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s Susan Lynn 7. Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists During the McCarthy Era, 1945-1955 Harriet Hyman Alonso 8. Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?: Familialism Against McCarthyism Deborah A. Gerson 9. Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-1962 Margaret Rose 10. Our Skirts Gave Them Courage!: The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-1961 Dee Garrison Part III: Constructions of Womanhood 11. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958 Joanne Meyerowitz 12. I Wanted the Whole World to See: Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till Ruth Feldstein 13. White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States Regina G. Kunzel Part IV: Sexual Outlaws and Cultural Rebels 14. Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients Before Roe v. Wade Rickie Solinger 15. The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America Donna Penn 16. The Other Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls Wini Breines About the Contributors

What will I do...? Teenage girls and the construction of motherhood.

What will I do...? Teenage girls and the construction of motherhood.