Motherhood Strategies Research Articles

War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone

War, Women and Post-conflict Empowerment: Lessons from Sierra Leone, edited by Josephine Beoku-Betts and Fredline A. M’Cormack-Hale uses an African Feminist theory to explicate how issues such as class, race, gender, religion, ethnicity, and heteronormativity intersect and are shaped by women in the African context, specifically in the war and post war contexts. The book offers conceptual frameworks embedded in “African centred gendered analysis” which privileges African lived realities and localised understandings of empowerment and development over dominant Western neoliberal conceptual frameworks. It does this by showcasing various womanhood and motherhood strategies used by women in Sierra Leone to end the 11-year Civil War (1991–2002). Equally so, the book divulges various ways women’s mass mobilisation has contributed to post-war Sierra Leone which saw the passage of landmark laws that protect women from patriarchal violations that predate the 11-year Civil War.

Las madres bricoleurs. Estrategias, prácticas y modelos maternales contemporáneos

Resumen: Basándose en varios estudios referidos a la maternidad, la evolución de la familia, y las estrategias reproductivas en el País Vasco (España), el artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las mujeres deciden ser madres en el contexto actual, sobre cómo ejercen la maternidad o desarrollan su rol maternal y el papel que juega en todo ello la emergencia de nuevos modelos de ser madres y padres que suponen las nuevas parentalidades. Frente al modelo hegemónico de maternidad, estas parentalidades que están obteniendo reconocimiento y visibilidad en la actualidad tienen la capacidad de convertirse en ejemplos para las mujeres a la hora de definir su propia maternidad.

Berkeley parenting self- efficacy scale- second grade version: Reliability-validity studies among Turkish families

Self efficacy is defined as beliefs in one's capabilities to organize and execute the courses of action required to manage prospective situations (Bandura, 1997). In this study Berkeley Parenting Self-Efficacy Scale (second grade form) was adapted to Turkish families. General survey model was utilized in this study. The answers for the scale of parents having children attending second grade level of elementary schools were evaluated. 536 parents, whose children attending second grade level of elementary private and state schools in Istanbul, included to this study. Berkeley Parenting Self-Efficacy Scale (Second Grade Version) is developed by Susan Hollaway. The results showed that “Berkeley Self-Efficacy Scale” (for second grade) was reliable and valid instrument for Turkish families. The factor analyses indicated that the subscale of “Attainments to the Child” in which there are 10 items regarding the strength of own competency feelings of mothers explain 53,90% of total variance. The factor analyses in the second part of the scale is called “Motherhood Strategies” in which there are 10 items, the few factors were obtained. These factors explain 52,0% of total variance.