Trying to be Good Enough: Exploring Enculturative Intensive Motherhood Discourse

IF 0.9 4区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Pub Date : 2024-07-30 DOI:10.1177/15327086241260452

Molly Wiant Cummins

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Abstract

Intensive motherhood is a pervasive discourse that enables and constrains mothers’ choices. However, intensive motherhood does not only affect mothers; it teaches each of us how we should judge a mother’s goodness. In this essay, I use autoethnographic moments of my life to explore how good mothers enact intensive motherhood discourse, highlighting how difficult it will be to undo the material effects of a discourse like intensive motherhood. Still, I argue that identifying how mothers have been made facilitates how to make mothers differently, offering hope that these hurtful discourses can be altered toward something better, however slowly.

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努力变得足够好探索文化密集型母性话语

密集型母爱是一种无处不在的话语，它促成并制约着母亲们的选择。然而，密集型母爱不仅影响母亲，它还教会我们每个人如何判断母亲的好坏。在这篇文章中，我用自己的生活片段来探讨好母亲是如何制定密集型母爱话语的，并强调要消除密集型母爱这样一种话语的物质影响是多么困难。尽管如此，我仍然认为，确定母亲是如何被塑造的，有助于如何以不同的方式塑造母亲，为这些伤害性话语提供了希望，无论多么缓慢，这些话语都可以朝着更好的方向改变。

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Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies Multiple-

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1.40

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16.70%

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期刊介绍： The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.