Feminism, psychology and becoming a mother

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12258666
AutoresW Hollway (0000-0001-7739-9900, The Open University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume26
Fascículo2
Páginas137-152
Data de publicação2016-02-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminism & Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0959-3535 • E-ISSN: 1461-7161
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0959353515625662
OpenAlexW2275310349
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17
Referências citadas8

The period of becoming a mother is a fundamental issue for feminism and a challenging one for psychology, involving a specific set of psychological processes and psychic changes that are hard to access through available language and discourses. How we understand, theorise and represent the perinatal period of mothering reaches into questions of gender equality and gender difference, parenting and how feminist psychology has tended to treat women’s reproductive bodies and the biological. To explore these themes, the article draws on a piece of empirical research about becoming a mother for the first time, using matrixial theory to point beyond the binaries in feminist psychological accounts of women’s reproductive capacities, parental care and gender equality

Aesthetics · Developmental psychology · Discourse analysis · Discursive psychology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Period (music · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychological research · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Diverse academic research themes · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology