Feminism, psychology and becoming a mother

Hollway, Wendy (2016). Feminism, psychology and becoming a mother. Feminism & Psychology, 26(2) pp. 137–152.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353515625662

Abstract

The period of becoming a mother is a fundamental issue for feminism and a challenging one for psychology, involving a specific set of psychological processes and psychic changes that are hard to access through available language and discourses. How we understand, theorise and represent the perinatal period of mothering reaches into questions of gender equality and gender difference, parenting and how feminist psychology has tended to treat women’s reproductive bodies and the biological. To explore these themes, the article draws on a piece of empirical research about becoming a mother for the first time, using matrixial theory to point beyond the binaries in feminist psychological accounts of women’s reproductive capacities, parental care and gender equality.

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• Item ORO ID
• 45679
• Item Type
• Journal Item
• ISSN
• 1461-7161
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Identities and Social Action	20052008	Economic and Social Research Council
  ESRC Fellowship	20082010	Economic and Social Research Council

• Keywords
• mother; matrixial theory; psycho-social
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling > Psychology
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Psychology and Counselling
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• © 2016 The Author.
• Depositing User
• Wendy Hollway