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NEGOTIATING INDEPENDENT MOTHERHOOD
dc.contributor.authorBlum, Lindaen_US
dc.contributor.authorDeussen, Theresaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-13T18:59:07Z
dc.date.available2010-04-13T18:59:07Z
dc.date.issued1996en_US
dc.identifier.citationBLUM, LINDA; DEUSSEN, THERESA (1996). "NEGOTIATING INDEPENDENT MOTHERHOOD." Gender & Society 2(10): 199-211. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66930>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0891-2432en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/66930
dc.description.abstractThe authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized norms of motherhood, represented in the assumptions that legal marriage and an exclusively bonded dyadic relationship with one's children are requisite to good mothering. The authors find, as did earlier phenomenological studies, that the mothers draw from distinct ideals of community-based independence to resist each of these assumptions and carve out alternative scripts based on nonmarital relationships with male partners and shared care of children.en_US
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dc.publisherSAGE Periodicals Pressen_US
dc.titleNEGOTIATING INDEPENDENT MOTHERHOODen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelSociologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelWomen's and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherTufs Universityen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66930/2/10.1177_089124396010002007.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/089124396010002007en_US
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