Will the "Good" [Working] Mother Please Stand Up? Professional and Maternal Concerns about Education, Care and Love

Autor/in	Page, Jools
Titel	Will the "Good" [Working] Mother Please Stand Up? Professional and Maternal Concerns about Education, Care and Love
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 25 (2013) 5, S.548-563 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2013.797069
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Employed Parents; Decision Making; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Gender Issues; Social Attitudes; Mass Media Effects; Child Caregivers; Public Policy; Child Rearing; Parenting Styles; Feminism; Cultural Influences; Religion; Personal Narratives; Qualitative Research; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Geschlechterfrage; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Kindererziehung; Feminismus; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Erlebniserzählung; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	The purposes of this article are to understand the factors that women are likely to take into consideration when making employment decisions and childcare choices while their babies are young, and to identify their choices, beliefs and dilemmas: the focus is on the experiences of working mothers in England. These choices are problematised in the context of mothers placing their babies with carers in day care settings who "love" their children. Drawing from a larger study, the focus is on the narrative and experience of Ayesha in order to illuminate the tensions of being a mother responsible for, and making decisions about her child's care and education, coupled with her working role as an early years education advisor. Issues about gender and education are enmeshed in Ayesha's narrative through these two roles and the subject positions which they created. Ayesha's narrative illustrates the ways in which such decisions can be fuelled by contradictory political messages which are sensationalised by the media in relation to the role of a "good" mother. The findings suggest there is a need to discuss the impact of media sensualisation on mothers' decision-making and to highlight the importance mothers place on close, loving relationships between the carer and the baby. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10