Re-Engineering Motherhood? Sure Start in the Community

Autor/inn/en	Hey, Valerie; Bradford, Simon
Titel	Re-Engineering Motherhood? Sure Start in the Community
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 7 (2006) 1, S.53 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.2304/ciec.2006.7.1.53
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Focus Groups; Interviews; Foreign Countries; Child Rearing; Early Intervention; Working Class; Political Issues; Social Influences; Family Programs; Self Concept; Moral Values; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland; Kindererziehung; Arbeiterklasse; Politischer Faktor; Sozialer Einfluss; Family program; Familienprogramm; Selbstkonzept; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article draws on data collected through two focus groups and eight telephone interviews undertaken as part of an evaluation of a local Sure Start programme. Located in the context of New Labour's valorisation of parenting, and specifically mothering, the article explores the impact of Sure Start policy on discourses of motherhood in this setting. Policy is considered as a form of knowledge and knowing, and the article looks at how policy opens up particular spaces of intervention whilst simultaneously configuring particular identities, in this case "mothers". The authors suggest that Sure Start has mapped a terrain upon which mothers" identities have been positioned in various discourses: "responsibility", "respectability" or "fecklessness", for example. The article explores the contested and contradictory ways in which discourse and identity are played out in one Sure Start neighbourhood. (Contains 12 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10