Mother-Child Relations and the Discourse of Maternity

Autor/in	Davis, Robert A.
Titel	Mother-Child Relations and the Discourse of Maternity
Quelle	In: Ethics and Education, 6 (2011) 2, S.125-139 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1744-9642
DOI	10.1080/17449642.2011.622979
Schlagwörter	Mothers; Democracy; Family Environment; Parent Child Relationship; Child Development; Affective Behavior; World History; Family (Sociological Unit); Social Influences; Parent Role; Discipline; Cultural Influences; Ideology; Infants + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Demokratie; Familienmilieu; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Kindesentwicklung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Weltgeschichte; Familie; Sozialer Einfluss; Parental role; Elternrolle; Disziplin; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Ideologie; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind
Abstract	In the critical assessment of the rise of what Jameson has termed the modern centred subject...the lived experience of individual consciousness as a monadic and autonomous centre of activity, significant attention has been devoted to the impact of the institutions of the late eighteenth century "bourgeois cultural revolution" such as the family and the school. Less consideration has been given in this history of regulated subjectivity to the emergence within key centres of cultural production of the discourse of maternity and its lasting consequences for the understanding and representation of the mother-child bond as a matrix of both affectional relations and infant development. The late eighteenth century reconfiguration of the family as, in Jameson's words a private space within the nascent public sphere of bourgeois society intensified the "separation of the spheres" begun in the early modern period and further formalised the zoning of the domestic experience as the defining site of emotional specialisation and individual growth. In the culture of early romanticism, this differentiation of domestic roles elevated children as the primary objects of a new regime of intergenerational care, replacing disciplinary control with intimate nurture and valorising a particular construction of motherhood as the ethical base of domestic piety and social stability beyond even the semantic reach of reason. Understanding the cultural processes by which this important ideological shift reshaped the paradigm of parent-child relations in industrial society--radiating beyond the realm of the family into the wider systems of childcare and education--enables us better to discern its continuing influence on perceptions of family life and motherhood today and to critically evaluate its potential contribution to changing conceptions of the place of the family in contemporary democratic society. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10