Journal article
Intensive Performances of Mothering: a Sociological Perspective
Qualitative research : QR, v 4(1)
Apr 2004
Abstract
This article explores multiple identities and meanings of mothering by interpreting two narrative performances of mothering in the early 1970s. One performance is from a work of art by feminist Mary Kelly, Post-Partum Document (1983), the other from a research interview conducted in the early 1980s with a DES daughter. Both women perform versions of intensive mothering. The essay shows that moving between narratives produced in a research interview and a work of art enlarges the field of narrative analysis and fills in details about how intensive mothering is a historically specific and embodied practice.
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Details
- Title
- Intensive Performances of Mothering: a Sociological Perspective
- Creators
- Susan E Bell - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA
- Publication Details
- Qualitative research : QR, v 4(1)
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33645636506
- Other Identifier
- 991014877686704721