Sara Ruddick's Theory of Maternal Thinking Applied To Traditional Irish Mothering
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | José María Portillo Valdés (0000-0003-1771-0052, corresponding author), Polly F Radosh (Western Illinois University) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 304-315 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199008318918 |
| OpenAlex | W18831110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper uses Sara Ruddick's theory of maternal thinking to explain patterns of Irish mothering that developed in Ireland following the Great Famine of 1845–1852. Ruddick's central thesis, that maternal thinking develops strategies for preserving the life of the child, fostering the child's growth, and shaping an acceptable child, is applied to the intersecting influences of famine memory, religion, education, and emigration in post-famine Ireland. The strict, moralistic, and highly inhibiting features of Irish culture that dominated the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are traceable to patterns of mothering that developed after the famine. While Irish mothers are often blamed for instilling values that stressed sexual repression and guilt, other cultural factors influenced maternal thinking. Mothers did foster highly repressive moral values that encouraged permanent celibacy and delayed marriage. This paper examines the larger cultural features that derived from political oppression and the famine as they imprinted these values
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
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