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Timing Motherhood: Experiencing and Narrating the Choice to Become a Mother
Eija Sevónsubject
Process (engineering)Lived experience05 social sciences050109 social psychologyNarrative inquiryDevelopmental psychologyGender StudiesArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)050903 gender studies0501 psychology and cognitive sciences0509 other social sciencesPsychologySocial psychologyGeneral Psychologydescription
The decision to become a mother is a multilayered process that is not wholly rational, clear-cut, or conscious. The aim of this study is to present four different stories about the choice of becoming a mother collected from pregnant women living in heterosexual relationships. The women’s stories are explored through the desires and ambivalences of embodied, relational and emotional female subjects. Crucial to the choice of becoming a mother are: first, the timing of motherhood, which is attached to social and cultural narratives concerning ‘good’ mothering and a ‘reasonable’ female life course; second, the ambivalences encountered in choosing to become a mother; and, third, the link between the heterosexual relationship and its quality and the choice of becoming a mother.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-11-01 | Feminism & Psychology |