This article is the story of how four women experienced, perceived, and reflected on their experiences as mothers surviving in Stalin's Gulag. It considers their subjective sense of motherhood by interrogating their memories of how they coped in
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Motherhood and Survival in the Stalinist Gulag
Elaine MacKinnon
Decorating Mothers, Defining Maternity
The Invention of the French Family Medal and the Rise of Profamily Ideology in 1920s France
Hannah M. Stamler
female soldiery with childbirth and divorcing childbirth from masculine acts of battle recognized by distinctions like the War Cross. In this manner, the prize equivocated motherhood and military service as compulsory national contributions, while
In French Politics, Culture & Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 83–106 (24 total)
Mapping Motherhood
Girls as Mothers in Contemporary Russia
Nadya Nartova
In this article, I analyze 30 biographical interviews with women who had given birth to a child before they turned 18. I discuss the discursive work that these girls do to develop their maternal practices as good and correct, and to normalize early motherhood in their biography in general. The informants see having a child as a line of discontinuity between their disadvantaged childhood and their self-reliant autonomous adulthood. At the same time, they define the idea of good motherhood not only through the internalization of, and compliance with, the dominant cultural codes, but also by relying on the biographical experience they have had.
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 93–109 (17 total)
Teaching Black Girlhood Studies with Black Motherhood Studies
An Autoethnography
Renata Ferdinand
associated with Black Girlhood Studies to inform and provide a foundation for the exploration of Black Motherhood Studies in an effort to promote a fuller, more complete and nuanced understanding of both social positions. Therefore, this is a howIcametoknow
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 52–66 (15 total)
Redeeming Lady Macbeth
Gender and Religion in Justin Kurzel's Macbeth (2015)
Marta Bernabeu
‘divine motherhood’ and sin, is key to assess the film's concern with atoning Lady Macbeth for her transgressions through its depiction of her haunting motherhood – which is presented as the origin of her grief and guilt as well as her road to penitence
A mother's hope in the midst of existential immobility from state and stigma
Katherine Smith
dependence becomes unimaginable, at times inarticulable, and shows that the affective dynamics of motherhood introduce a persistence of hope in the face of unimaginable futures. It demonstrates that in Harpurhey, the management of uncertainty requires a
Feminist Anthropology Anew
Motherhood and HIV/AIDS as Sites of Action
Pamela J. Downe
Ongoing discussions about feminist anthropology as an active and relevant sub-discipline largely rely on historical comparisons that pit the political fervour of the past against what is deemed to be the less defined and increasingly disengaged feminist anthropology of today. In this paper, I argue that the prevailing tone of pessimism surrounding feminist anthropology should be met with a critical response that: (1) situates the current characterization of the sub-discipline within broader debates between second- and third-wave feminism; and (2) considers the ways in which the supposed incongruity between theories of deconstruction and political engagement undermines the sub-discipline's strengths. Throughout this discussion, I consider what an ethnographic study of motherhood in the context of HIV/AIDS can offer as we take stock of feminist anthropology's current potential and future possibility.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2011
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 5–15 (10 total)
"Everyday Heroines"
Nazi Visions of Motherhood in Mutterliebe (1939) and Annelie (1941)
Jo Fox
National Socialism idealized maternal bravery, selflessness, devotion, and sacrifice as essential to the health of the nation, particularly in the context of World War II. This article critically assesses the Third Reich's projection of and women's reactions to the national cult of motherhood in Gustav Ucicky's Mutterliebe (Mother Love, 1939) and Josef von Baky's Annelie (1941). Though supported by a wide range of state-sponsored socio-economic initiatives and marketing strategies, these films reveal significant tensions between the ways women imagined themselves and the lives that the regime attempted to dictate for them. Because Nazi cinema also offered female viewers the opportunity to engage in escapist fantasies of adventure and romance, making dutiful motherhood appealing was always a challenge, and grew increasingly difficult as material hardships increased over the course of the war.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 21–39 (19 total)
Patrick Pearse, Boyish Spirituality and Irish National Identity
Anne Markey
This article explores the construction of boyhood in short fiction written by Patrick Pearse, the Irish nationalist and political activist executed for his leading role in the abortive Easter Rising of 1916. Pearse’s focus on the spiritual dimension of boyhood in his first collection of Irish-language stories, Íosagán agus Sgéalta Eile [Iosagan and Other Stories] (1907), simultaneously undermines and endorses imperialist and patriarchal assumptions about gender differentiation. In later stories published in An Mháthair agus sgéalta eile [The Mother and Other Stories] (1916), Pearse moved from advocacy of boyish spirituality to a more physical and militant representation of boyhood. This changing representation of Irish boyhood illustrates how Pearse’s increasing militarism reflected his ongoing construction of national identity.
In Boyhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2008
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 140–153 (13 total)
Love, Motherhood and Migration
Regulating Migrant Women's Sexualities in the Persian Gulf
Pardis Mahdavi
This article looks at the confluence of love, labour and the law by focusing on the regulation of migrant women's sexualities in the Gulf Coast Cooperation countries of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait. Migrant women increasingly comprise the majority of migrants to the region as the demand for intimate labour in the Persian Gulf is on the rise. But migrant women who become pregnant while in the Persian Gulf are immediately imprisoned and charged with the crime of zina. These women give birth while incarcerated and spend up to a year with their babies in prison. They are then forcibly separated from their children when they are deported, rendering the children stateless in the host country. Migrant women who are often brought to the Persian Gulf to perform (re)productive labour are seen as immoral if they engage in sexual activities during their time in the Persian Gulf (and this is written into their contracts), and thus are seen as unfit to parent their own children. Some migrant women have recently been protesting these laws by refusing and fighting deportation without their children. This article contrasts discourses about migrant women's sexuality and legal analysis with the lived experiences of selected migrant women and their children through ethnographic research conducted in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait City between 2008 and 2014.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2014
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 19–37 (19 total)