The data for this paper was originally collected and analysed by the second author for her
master's thesis. The first author (the second author's supervisor) has re-visited and re …

In contemporary western society, motherhood has acquired a special significance for
women: women are expected to find fulfilment and satisfaction in the role of the" ever …

An exploratory study sought to reconcile certain contradictions regarding the role of mothers
as presented in the social science literature through probing subjective accounts of mothers …

This paper examines examples of women's everyday interactions to explore the ways in
which the participants of two all-female groups discursively invoke their roles as mothers …

For two consecutive academic sessions, 2001 and 2002, Harpur College of Binghamton
University funded two interdisciplinary workshops to examine the social practices that play a …

This study aimed to determine whether there is a dominant discourse on motherhood in one
semi-rural, low-income, Coloured community. It investigated the personal and individual …

The study explored whether South African mothers subscribed to the Western ideology of
intensive motherhood and how this ideology was altered or resisted. Semi-structured …

This paper reports on findings from a psychosocial study of maternal subjectivity of working
mothers in a scarcely resourced community in South Africa. The study involved using the …

Although mothering is widely believed to be a biological and natural stage of women's lives,
feminism tells us that not all women have the same experience of mothering. They perceive …

From a sociopsychological perspective, mothering is variously described in the research
literature. This theory synthesis research design study aims to integrate our current …