Critiquing the “Good Enough” Mother: A Perspective Based on the Murik of Papua New Guinea

Barlow, Kathleen

doi:10.1525/eth.2004.32.4.514

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“…Mexican ideologies of mothering that limit a woman's role to childrearing in the home thus create a space where pregnancy can be a symbol of achieved and ascribed status for recently arrived Mexican immigrant women. The creative use of this status to secure more support and improved social relations during pregnancy calls forth a relational and agentive view of mothering (Barlow ), despite restrictive motherhood and mothering constructs.…”

Section: Meanings and Experiences Of Pregnancy And Mexican And Americmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress, Pregnancy, and Motherhood: Implications for Birth Weights in the Borderlands of Texas

Fleuriet

Sunil

2016

Med Anthropol Q

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We argue that changes over time in how ideas of stress are incorporated into understandings of pregnancy and motherhood among Mexican immigrant women living in the United States may affect the documented increase of low birth weight infants born to those women. Stress has consistently been linked to low birth weight, and pregnant Mexican American and Mexican immigrant women differ in levels of perceived social stress. What is lacking is an explanation for these differences. We utilize a subset of 36 ethnographic interviews with pregnant immigrant women from northern Mexico and Mexican Americans living in south Texas to demonstrate how meanings of pregnancy and motherhood increasingly integrate notions of stress the longer immigrant Mexican women live in the United States. We situate our results within anthropological and sociological research on motherhood in the United States and Mexico, anthropological research in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and interdisciplinary research on Hispanic rates of low birth weight.

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Section: Meanings and Experiences Of Pregnancy And Mexican And Americmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stress, Pregnancy, and Motherhood: Implications for Birth Weights in the Borderlands of Texas

Fleuriet

Sunil

2016

Med Anthropol Q

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“…Informal care, including kinship-based fostering, is more common than institutionalization for the 163 million children worldwide who do not live with a biological parent (Groza et al, 2011;Lancy, 2008; Leiden Conference on the Development and Care of Children Without Permanent Parents, 2012). Informal kinship-based fostering has been documented in many places, including West Africa (Bledsoe, 1990;Goody, 1982;Gottlieb, 2004;Notermans, 2004), Oceania (Barlow, 2004;Carroll, 1970;Carsten, 1991;Donner, 1999;Ottino, 1970), Latin America (Fonseca, 1986;Leinaweaver, 2008;Van Vleet, 2009;Walmsley, 2008;Weismantel, 1995), and minority communities in North America (Stack, 1974;Strong, 2001). Indeed, the more rigid biological definitions of kinship used to calculate foster care arrangements in North America and Western Europe are atypical worldwide (Keller, 2013).…”

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Informal Kinship‐Based Fostering Around the World: Anthropological Findings

Leinaweaver

2014

Child Dev Perspectives

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Anthropological research around the world has documented informal, kinship-based foster care cross culturally. That research suggests that children are more likely to benefit from informal kinship-based fostering in cultural contexts where fostering expands the pool of relatives rather than substituting one parent for another, fostering is expected to provide children with positive opportunities for learning and development, and/or children are granted some autonomy or decision-making power. However, informal kinship-based fostering seems to place children at risk in cultural contexts where the process of children’s attachment to caregivers resembles the Western child development model, communities are highly stratified along socioeconomic lines, and/or exploitation of children is permitted. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for both research and policy.

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“…Both Sara's and the second author's stories suggest that normative discourse is associated with goodness, as Pollack (1997), Jackson and Mannix (2013), Barlow (2004), and Landsman 2008) argue. Before birth both women consider themselves good people, good mothers, good citizens yet after birth they are Bmoral failures^who deliver Babnormality^into the world (Pollack 1997).…”

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Motherhood in the Context of Normative Discourse: Birth Stories of Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome

Gabel

Kotel

2015

J Med Humanit

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Using birth stories as our object of inquiry, this article examines the ways in which normative discourses about gender, disability and Down syndrome construct the birth stories of three mothers of children with Down syndrome. Their stories are composed of the mothers' recollections of the first hours after birth as a time when their infants are separated from them and their postpartum needs are ignored. Together, their stories illustrate socio-cultural tropes that position Down syndrome as a dangerous form of the "other" and mothers who give birth to children with Down syndrome as implicated in transgressing cultural norms.

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Critiquing the “Good Enough” Mother: A Perspective Based on the Murik of Papua New Guinea

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Stress, Pregnancy, and Motherhood: Implications for Birth Weights in the Borderlands of Texas

Stress, Pregnancy, and Motherhood: Implications for Birth Weights in the Borderlands of Texas

Informal Kinship‐Based Fostering Around the World: Anthropological Findings

Motherhood in the Context of Normative Discourse: Birth Stories of Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome

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