Maternal Knowledge and Care Ethics in Navigating the Stances on Abortion Taken by Young Catholic Mothers in Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14760119 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Krotofil (0000-0003-2308-5329, corresponding author), Dorota Wójciak (0000-0002-9114-9331), Dagmara Mętel (0000-0002-5036-9821) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 547-570 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Religious Ethics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0384-9694 • E-ISSN: 1467-9795 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jore.12489 |
| OpenAlex | W4407175902 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 38 |
In this paper, we explore young Polish Catholic mothers' moral reasoning on abortion. We draw on the concept of maternal knowledge and theoretical insights developed within the ethics of care to shed light on the complexities and contradictions experienced by Catholic mothers in the context of reproductive choices. The narratives we gathered through in‐depth interviews illustrate how mothers evoke embodied, experience‐based maternal knowledge to challenge hegemonic frameworks associated with legal, medical, and religious authoritative knowledges. We show how mothers engage critically with ideologized notions of sacrifice and suffering by placing these concepts in the context of relational maternal care work and argue that mothers adopt a position on the moral permissibility of abortion by reinterpreting religious norms and ideas, such as the protection of the family and vocation of care
Abortion · Ethics of care · Human sexuality · Obstetrics · Political science · Pregnancy · Sexual ethics · Sociology · Catholicism, Bioethics, Media, Education · Education and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Theology and Canon Law Studies
Medical ethics
Democratic caring and global care responsibilities
The Ethics of Care
Abortion, Killing, and Maternal Moral Authority
The Politics of Morality
The Maternal Factor
Caring
The Polish Mother on the defensive? The transformation of the myth and its impact on the motherhood of Polish women
Discourses of motherhood and women’s health
Public Ethics of Care—A General Public Ethics
Skirting heaven, skirting hell’
Women on strike
Narrating Ambivalence of Maternal Responsibility
Rupture and Continuity
Theory Travelling through Time and Space
Anti-Essentialism in Practice
Commitment and Partialism in the Ethics of Care
What do mothers know? Maternal knowledge of child development
The Moral Basis of a Backward Society
In a different voice
Ricoeur and the ethics of care
Voicing the self
The Battle for Symbolic Power
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |