Negotiating Co-Existing Subjectivities: The New Maternal Self in the Academy
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| Title: | Negotiating Co-Existing Subjectivities: The New Maternal Self in the Academy |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Gilbert, E., Denson, N. (ORCID |
| Source: | Gender and Education. 2022 34(7):869-885. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | College Faculty, Mothers, Personal Autonomy, Ideology, Foreign Countries, Feminism, Teacher Attitudes, Expectation, Neoliberalism, School Culture |
| Geographic Terms: | Australia |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2022.2094347 |
| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| Abstract: | The challenge of mothering while pursuing an academic career is the most significant obstacle to women's success. However, there is a lack of research examining how being a woman who intensively mothers co-exist with her autonomous subjectivity as an academic. In this qualitative study, academic mothers adhere both to an intensive mothering ideology and the ideal worker construct reified in neo-liberalised academic culture. We argue that these women negotiate the co-existence of these subjectivities from within a 'new' maternal subjectivity. These academic women are not victims of the patriarchal norms of the academy or the ideological constraints of intensive mothering. Instead, they actively negotiate institutional and ideological constraints in a way that incorporates their autonomous subjectivity and their maternal subjectivity. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2023 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1366735 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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| Abstract: | The challenge of mothering while pursuing an academic career is the most significant obstacle to women's success. However, there is a lack of research examining how being a woman who intensively mothers co-exist with her autonomous subjectivity as an academic. In this qualitative study, academic mothers adhere both to an intensive mothering ideology and the ideal worker construct reified in neo-liberalised academic culture. We argue that these women negotiate the co-existence of these subjectivities from within a 'new' maternal subjectivity. These academic women are not victims of the patriarchal norms of the academy or the ideological constraints of intensive mothering. Instead, they actively negotiate institutional and ideological constraints in a way that incorporates their autonomous subjectivity and their maternal subjectivity. |
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| ISSN: | 0954-0253 1360-0516 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09540253.2022.2094347 |
