Mother’s Work History in the Construction of Adult Daughter’s Worker-Mother Discursive Strategies

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Publication Source

Sociological Focus

Volume Number

41

Issue Number

2

First Page

159

Last Page

176

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

0038-0237

E-ISSN

2162-1128

Abstract

This study explores how adult daughters perceive their mothers' worker-mother identities and compares these perceptions to their own worker-mother identities. Interviews were conducted with 98 mothers, stratified by employment status, with one or more children under the age of five. Results indicate that adult daughters reflect on their mothers' worker-mother identities when constructing their own maternal identities. Adult daughters' narratives revealed discursive strategies of identification with, reaction against, appropriation, and transcendence of their mothers' mothering ideologies.

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