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dc.contributor.authorEmerald, Elke
dc.contributor.authorCarpenter, Lorelei
dc.contributor.editorMichael Bamberg, Allyssa McCabe
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:58:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:58:51Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2009-11-12T07:27:42Z
dc.identifier.issn13876740
dc.identifier.doi10.1075/ni.18.2.10aus
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/26648
dc.description.abstractMotherhood is under review. What counts as a 'good mother' is receiving attention in both popular and academic contexts (Arendell, 2000; Hays, 1996). The mothers we spoke with are judged not to be 'good' mothers by medical professionals, teachers, friends and family, because they do not have 'good' children. Their children are disorderly, disorganised and disruptive, they have ADHD. We extend current debates to explore these mothers' ransoming to the narrative of 'the way things should be' in terms of Bourdieu's (1990) concepts of habitus, misrecognition and symbolic violence. Importantly, we examine how these women talk back to the cultural narratives that malign and disregard them and their children. They trouble those narratives. However, in speaking out, in being always vigilant to their child's interests, women often find they are considered not only troublesome, but themselves troubled. Rather than hearing them this way, we hear their stories as challenges to the cultural narratives that constrain them. We hear their voices as important activism in reformulating motherhood.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company
dc.publisher.placeAmsterdam Netherlands
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.benjamins.nl/
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom379
dc.relation.ispartofpageto393
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalNarrative Inquiry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume18
dc.rights.retentionN
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchStudies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLanguage, Communication and Culture
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160899
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode16
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode20
dc.titleTroubled, troublesome, troubling mothers: The dilemma of difference in women's personal motherhood narratives
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorCarpenter, Lorelei
gro.griffith.authorEmerald, Elke


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