Working mothers and their multivoiced self
Since the 1960's, work has been a goal for Brazilian middle class women. In contrast, mothers of lower-income groups have always needed to work. This qualitative study investigated the meaning of motherhood, child care and work among 28 working mothers of different social classes. In order to d...
- Autores:
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Sanches de Almeida, Leila
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2012
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/39360
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/39360
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/29457/
- Palabra clave:
- 15 Psicología / Psychology
Psychology
social psychology
cultural studies
female labor
motherhood
subjectivity
motherhood
child care
female work
working mothers
self
maternidad
cuidados infantiles
trabajo femenino
madres trabajadoras
maternidade
cuidados infantis
trabalho feminine
mães trabalhadoras
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Since the 1960's, work has been a goal for Brazilian middle class women. In contrast, mothers of lower-income groups have always needed to work. This qualitative study investigated the meaning of motherhood, child care and work among 28 working mothers of different social classes. In order to do so, interviews and focus groups were conducted. Results show that women attribute exclusively to mothers the child care function. In addition, being a working woman has different meanings for each of those two social classes. There are voices in the self that represent the positions of mother and worker. They act on the meaning systems and they can lead to contradictory attitudes in a similar context. |
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