Space, Time, and Renegotiating Motherhood
An Exploration of the Domestic Workplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabel Dyck (University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 459-483 |
| Publication date | 1990-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/d080459 |
| OpenAlex | W2171718941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 89 |
| References cited | 33 |
Recent discussion in human geography has heightened awareness of the problems and possibilities of the use of social theory in empirical research, This paper is concerned with showing how insights from feminist theory and Giddens's theory of structuration informed a study focusing on women's mothering practices in a Canadian suburb. In concert these approaches cast attention to the implications of recognizing subjects as knowledgeable human agents in analyses of social and economic change. These include a renewed emphasis on the 'everyday' and its links with general processes, an interest in methods appropriate for investigating the generation of meanings central to our social and spatial worlds, and the need to incorporate women's experiences in the construction of theoretical knowledge. Included in a new research agenda within feminist geography are questions concerning the active construction of gender identities through practices which vary over time and space. In the study reported the meaning of the domestic workplace to mothers of young children was explored. It is shown how the notion of motherhood and the sets of practices making up mothering work were interpreted and negotiated as women responded to social and economic structuring in a particular place. The paper includes a concluding discussion on the links between the theoretical underpinnings of the study and its empirical findings
Empirical research · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist theory · Human geography · Meaning (existential · Political science · Social constructionism · Social science · Sociology · Structuring · Gender Studies · Rural development and sustainability · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Journey to work and job search characteristics of the urban poor
“Turn on the radio, bust out a song”
“I…don’t want to see you flashing your bits around”
The Geography Closest In ‐ the Body… the Politics of Pregnability
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Constructing gender, constructing the urban
Construction work and the mobility imperative
Everyday encounters
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New Zealand parents' understandings of the intergenerational decline in children's independent outdoor play and active travel
Shaping children's mobilities
New geographies of parenting, policy and place
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Farmwomen's emotional geographies of care
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Fragile synchronicities
Unschooling motherhood
Labour markets in transition. The experiences of women in two border regions of East Germany
Space, place and gender relations
Spaces of every-night life
Person-environment theories in contemporary perceptual and behavioural geography II
Gender and dichotomy
The business of care
Desire/disgust
Children Should Be Seen and Not Heard
Exploring the Juggling of Responsibilities with Space-Time Accessibility Analysis
Mother and Worker? The Negotiation of Motherhood and Paid Employment in Two Urban Neighborhoods
Housing
Women's leisure
Commuting patterns of residents within a high-density urban development
Do Socioeconomic Differences in Family Size Reflect Cultural Differences in Confidence and Social Support for Parenting
Diagramming the social
Parental Well-being Surrounding First Birth as a Determinant of Further Parity Progression
Valuing Childcare
Negotiating Public Space
Spatial Capability for Understanding Gendered Mobility for Korean Christian Immigrant Women in Los Angeles
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Cultures of mothering and car use in suburban Sydney
How fixed is fixed? Gendered rigidity of space–time constraints and geographies of everyday activities
Children's outdoor play
Restructuring, gender and employment in flux
Structure and Agency
On Feminism, Method And Methods In Human Geography
Everyday negotiations
Gender differences in space‐time constraints
Exploring the nexus between place of residence, daily activity patterns, and the socio‐spatial isolation of mothers on parental leave
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Empirical applications of structuration theory
The bio-politics of bodies politic
Gis methods in time-geographic research
I Don't Really like It Here but I Don't Want to Be Anywhere Else
Travelling in your backyard
Thinking Female Bodyspace and Housing Through Corporeal Feminist Theory
The role of the non-human in relations of care
Shaping gender inequalities
The Politics of Childcare Provisioning
Working social assemblages
Motherhood, mobility and materiality
Keeping Children Safe
Hidden geographies
Spatiality, embodiment and hazards encountered in the making of pots
Coming Out and Outcomes
Research, Performance, and Doing Human Geography
Living on the Edge
Love and Money in an Age of Neoliberalism
The gendered impact of the financial crisis
Time Scarcity
Gender, the Home-Work Link, and Space-Time Patterns of Nonemployment Activities
How housing tenure drives household care strategies and practices
Refugee-Ness and Exploitation
Domestic Geographies of Parental and Infant (Co-) Becomings
Mothers, communities and the scale of difference
Migrant mothers, home and emotional capital - hidden citizenship practices
Parents, consociates and the social construction of children's athletics
The Reproduction of Mothering
Method in Social Science
A woman's place?
Time, Space and Regionalisation
Gender and Class Consciousness
Capitalism and Modern Social Theory
Profiles and Critiques in Social Theory
Redundant spaces in cities and regions? Studies in industrial decline and social change
Localities, Class and Gender
From Critique to Intervention
Patriarchy
Women Attached. The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children
Integrating Home and Wage Workplace
Homo Economicus, Physical Metaphors, and Universal Models in Economic Geography
Structural Marxism and Human Geography
Liberal Ideology and the Postindustrial City∗
Place as Historically Contingent Process
Postmodernism and the Politics of Social Theory
On the Determination of Social Action in Space and Time
Structuration Theory
Beyond Separate Spheres
Towards an Understanding of the Gender Division of Urban Space
The Problem of Reference and Geographic Structuration
Structuration Theory in Urban Analysis
Central Problems in Social Theory
The Social Networks and Social Support of Married and Single Mothers in Sweden
Re-Visioning Women and Social Change
Feminist Theory and Social Change
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| Unique citing works | 89 |
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| Citations per year | 2,62 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 87 |