Coercive Invitations: how young women in school make sense of mothering and waged labour |
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| Authors: | Arlene Tigar Mclaren |
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| Institution: | Simon Fraser University, Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the ways that young women take up powerfully institutionalised invitations about mothering and waged labour and relate them to notions about equal parenting, family structure, masculinity, femininity, the sexual division of labour and non‐parental childcare. It shows how the young women in this study articulate a range of often shifting discourses and strategies which help them to make sense of the options available to them. The findings suggest much movement and interweaving of discourses and contexts and even ‘signs of change’ but all within definite, circumscribed parameters. |
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