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Motherload : Making It All Better in Insecure Times / / Ana Villalobos



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Autore: Villalobos Ana Visualizza persona
Titolo: Motherload : Making It All Better in Insecure Times / / Ana Villalobos Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2014]
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
Disciplina: 306.874 3
Soggetto topico: Motherhood
Mother and child
Security (Psychology) in children
Security (Psychology)
Soggetto non controllato: 21st century american culture
american culture
american mothers
economic anxiety
family
gender and women studies
gender studies
good mothering
human condition
insecurity
joy
marital uncertainty
marriage and divorce
mother and child
mother child relationship
motherhood
mothering
parent and child
parenthood
parenting
realistic expectations of motherhood
realistic
security in family
security nets
single mothers
social pressures
stress
terrorism
womanhood
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Shielding and Antidote Strategies -- 3. Compensatory Connection Strategy -- 4. Light- Motherload Connection -- 5. Inoculation Strategy -- 6. Friendship Strategy -- 7. Light- Motherload Independence -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Research Participants -- Appendix B. Research Methods -- Notes -- References -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In a time of economic anxiety, fear of terrorism, and marital uncertainty, insecurity has become a big part of life for many American mothers. With bases of security far from guaranteed, mothers are often seeking something they can count on. In this beautifully written and accessible book, Ana Villalobos shows how mothers frequently rely on the one thing that seems sure to them: the mother-child relationship. Based on over one hundred interviews with and observations of mothers-single or married, but all experiencing varying forms of insecurity in their lives-Villalobos finds that mothers overwhelmingly expect the mothering relationship to "make it all better" for themselves and their children. But there is a price to pay for loading this single relationship with such high expectations. Using detailed case studies, Villalobos shows how women's Herculean attempts to create various kinds of security through mothering often backfire, thereby exhausting mothers, deflecting their focus from other possible sources of security, and creating more stress. That stress is further exacerbated by dominant ideals about "good" mothering-ideals that are fraught with societal pressures and expectations that reach well beyond what mothers can actually do for their children. Pointing to hopeful alternatives, Villalobos shows how more realistic expectations about motherhood lead remarkably to greater security in families by prompting mothers to cast broader security nets, making conditions less stressful and-just as significantly-bringing greater joy in mothering.
Titolo autorizzato: Motherload  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95972-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807805203321
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