Wa'allah, the Woman She Should Go Direct to Paradise: Perceptions of Motherhood in Qatar

Autor/inn/en	Viruru, Radhika; Nasser, Ramzi
Titel	Wa'allah, the Woman She Should Go Direct to Paradise: Perceptions of Motherhood in Qatar
Quelle	In: Global Studies of Childhood, 7 (2017) 2, S.148-158 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2043-6106
DOI	10.1177/2043610617703834
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Mothers; Social Influences; Cultural Influences; Females; Social Attitudes; Child Rearing; Parent Role; Parent Responsibility; Arabs; Religion; Fathers; Qatar + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Mother; Mutter; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Weibliches Geschlecht; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Kindererziehung; Parental role; Elternrolle; Arab; Araber; Katar
Abstract	Recent scholarship on motherhood has tried to trouble the idea that mothering is a set of instinctive "natural" behaviors that all women are born knowing, positing it rather as a set of fundamentally cultural practices, enacted within social and political contexts and intimately related to thinking about citizenship, responsibility, and human development. In this article, the authors draw from a year-long study of motherhood in the Arabian Gulf nation of Qatar to support those efforts. Approximately, 280 women completed a survey regarding their perceptions of motherhood and follow-up in-depth qualitative interviews were conducted with 30 participants. A large number of respondents indicated that they employed domestic helpers to help with their children. Although domestic help was common, most of the "intimate" tasks involved in raising children, such as bathing, toileting, and putting children to bed were carried out by the mothers themselves. As many participants had large families (about half of the women surveyed had at least four children living with them), mothers often expressed a strong sense of being overwhelmed, but at the same time, welcoming their responsibilities as God-given. The authors suggest that as the nation of Qatar reconstructs itself, notions of families are also being reconstructed; however, women are being disproportionately being charged with the responsibility to create the "perfect" family. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01