Constrained by choice: Young women negotiate the discourses of marriage and motherhood

Autor:	H. Lorraine Radtke, Heather Ak Jacques
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Gender Studies Negotiation Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Discourse analysis media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Context (language use) Gender studies Sociology General Psychology media_common
Zdroj:	Feminism & Psychology. 22:443-461
ISSN:	1461-7161 0959-3535
DOI:	10.1177/0959353512442929
Popis:	This project explored young women’s identity constructions in the context of competing and changing cultural ideals of womanhood, such as feminist discourses and neoliberal discourses of choice and individualism. Specifically, we were interested in how young women attending university in the new millennium envisioned their futures. Thirty women, aged 18–26, who were university students taking courses in Psychology, participated in 15 research conversations with two participants and an interviewer. Using discourse analysis, we show how the young women routinely privileged the ideal of women as wives and mothers, yet positioned themselves as autonomous individuals making free choices and, thereby, personally responsible for managing the problems in their lives. They also ignored gender politics by avoiding or glossing over talk about women’s inequality and criticisms of traditional family and workplace arrangements.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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