A sociological analysis of motherhood ideology.

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2002

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Uluğtekin, Melahat Gül

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This study analyses alienating and empowering aspects of mothering experience. From a socialist feminist standpoint, it deals with the experiences of mothers from different classes in relation to the dominant ideology of motherhood. Considering the relation between women's oppression and reproduction of capitalist patriarchal ideology, empowerment of mothers seems to be rather related to the potential that mothering experience carries. The relation between motherhood as constructed and mothering as experienced is concerned and motherhood appears as a multifaceted network wherein special and ordinary, personal and universal, merit and triviality, solidarity and conflict, public and private, reproduction and resistance, oppressive and empowering meet. The findings of the research conducted in a state hospital of Turkey are interpreted through the study.

Subject Keywords

Motherhood., Gender identity., Women, Gender, Reproduction, Gender identity, Ideology, Women's Oppression

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/13376

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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M. G. Uluğtekin, “A sociological analysis of motherhood ideology.,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2002.