Martha Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674123 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martha Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martha |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-4279-4905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Farmed and Dangerous
This is a story about how sheep's lives were entangled with political struggles to resist dominant ontologies of capitalism and the nation state. By approaching the paper's problematic in terms of interacting agency, rather than a world of separate objects, the ecofeminist materialism developed here challenges the ontologies embedded in political, economic and regulatory modes that separate humans from the more-than-human
Standard fare or fairer standards
Introduction
These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns
Making Social Change
The arrest of large numbers of women under laws originally designed to protect them from male violence tells us very little about women’s use of violence against their intimate partners. However, it does tell us about the difficulties of organizing to protect women from violence and about some of the unanticipated challenges of engaging the legal and criminal justice systems as ways of protecting women from violence. The authors offer strategies …
From the ground up
Engendering Motherhood
Engendering Motherhood
Rock-a-by Baby
Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses…
Engendering Motherhood
Engendering Motherhood: Identity and SelfTransformation in Women's Lives. Martha McMahon. New York: Guilford Press. 1995. 324 pp. Hardcover ISBN 1-57230-002-7. $32.50 cloth. In Engendering Motherhood, Martha McMahon presents a sociological analysis of the meaning of motherhood and the identity transformation that occurred for 31 middle-class and 28 workingclass, Canadian-educated, White women who worked full-time outside the home and had primary …
For Richer, For Poorer
For Richer, For Poorer provides a new perspective on the impact of divorce on women. Based on interviews with a random sample of divorced mothers, this book identifies their real concerns: inadequate resources from their ex-husbands and the state, and unequal social policies. Presenting accounts of how they manage the divorce process, divorced women of diverse background describe their attempts to rebuild their own lives and those of their famili…
Significant Absences
This article looks at how research accounts can conceal stories about the experiences of those who do not appear to be present in the research project. Some of these hidden selves or shadow others in research may be called "significantly absent" because their invisi bility holds particular significance for the sorts of research stories researchers tell. Recognizing these absent others stretches these stories beyond the temporal, spatial, and conc…
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews
Qualitative sociologists typically privilege fieldwork over interviews. What happens to fieldworkers who now ask questions but no longer hang out? What about those who rely exclusively on intensive interviewing while participant observation remains the standard? The authors examine the negative consequences of privileging fieldwork for identity and practice, the unique contributions of in-depth interviewing, and the differences in the tales that …
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews
Qualitative sociologists typically privilege fieldwork over interviews. What happens to fieldworkers who now ask questions but no longer hang out? What about those who rely exclusively on intensive interviewing while participant observation remains the standard? The authors examine the negative consequences of privileging fieldwork for identity and practice, the unique contributions of in-depth interviewing, and the differences in the tales that …
Significant Absences
This article looks at how research accounts can conceal stories about the experiences of those who do not appear to be present in the research project. Some of these hidden selves or shadow others in research may be called "significantly absent" because their invisi bility holds particular significance for the sorts of research stories researchers tell. Recognizing these absent others stretches these stories beyond the temporal, spatial, and conc…
Making Social Change
The arrest of large numbers of women under laws originally designed to protect them from male violence tells us very little about women’s use of violence against their intimate partners. However, it does tell us about the difficulties of organizing to protect women from violence and about some of the unanticipated challenges of engaging the legal and criminal justice systems as ways of protecting women from violence. The authors offer strategies …
Standard fare or fairer standards
Introduction
These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns
Engendering Motherhood
Rock-a-by Baby
Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses…
Privileging Fieldwork Over Interviews
Qualitative sociologists typically privilege fieldwork over interviews. What happens to fieldworkers who now ask questions but no longer hang out? What about those who rely exclusively on intensive interviewing while participant observation remains the standard? The authors examine the negative consequences of privileging fieldwork for identity and practice, the unique contributions of in-depth interviewing, and the differences in the tales that …
Engendering Motherhood
Engendering Motherhood: Identity and SelfTransformation in Women's Lives. Martha McMahon. New York: Guilford Press. 1995. 324 pp. Hardcover ISBN 1-57230-002-7. $32.50 cloth. In Engendering Motherhood, Martha McMahon presents a sociological analysis of the meaning of motherhood and the identity transformation that occurred for 31 middle-class and 28 workingclass, Canadian-educated, White women who worked full-time outside the home and had primary …
For Richer, For Poorer
For Richer, For Poorer provides a new perspective on the impact of divorce on women. Based on interviews with a random sample of divorced mothers, this book identifies their real concerns: inadequate resources from their ex-husbands and the state, and unequal social policies. Presenting accounts of how they manage the divorce process, divorced women of diverse background describe their attempts to rebuild their own lives and those of their famili…
Significant Absences
This article looks at how research accounts can conceal stories about the experiences of those who do not appear to be present in the research project. Some of these hidden selves or shadow others in research may be called "significantly absent" because their invisi bility holds particular significance for the sorts of research stories researchers tell. Recognizing these absent others stretches these stories beyond the temporal, spatial, and conc…
From the ground up
Engendering Motherhood
Engendering Motherhood
Rock-a-by Baby
Although self-help has been an integral strategy of the women's movement, the burgeoning self-help publishing industry and growing popularity of talk shows encouraging personal confession have provoked vicious attacks on self-help from many feminists. Rock-a-By Baby examines the postpartum depression support group movement and exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self-help groups and feminism. Taylor uses…
Making Social Change
The arrest of large numbers of women under laws originally designed to protect them from male violence tells us very little about women’s use of violence against their intimate partners. However, it does tell us about the difficulties of organizing to protect women from violence and about some of the unanticipated challenges of engaging the legal and criminal justice systems as ways of protecting women from violence. The authors offer strategies …
Introduction
These Explorations argue that more links between the fields of feminist ecology and feminist economics are both needed and promising, and presents new, boundary-crossing research in this area. It brings together contributions from various regions in the world that link political action and experience in practice and research in an economic theorizing that includes both environmental and feminist concerns
Standard fare or fairer standards
Farmed and Dangerous
This is a story about how sheep's lives were entangled with political struggles to resist dominant ontologies of capitalism and the nation state. By approaching the paper's problematic in terms of interacting agency, rather than a world of separate objects, the ecofeminist materialism developed here challenges the ontologies embedded in political, economic and regulatory modes that separate humans from the more-than-human
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works)