How to be a Good Mother: The Case of Middle Class Mothering in Russia

Shpakovskaya, Larisa

doi:10.1080/09668136.2015.1101210

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“…6Thinking through the question of governmental goals and groups singled out vis-à-vis these goals, it is possible to reflect on concerns other than declining birth rates. The Russian state's preoccupation with the restoration of the country's geopolitical power has arguably turned the rhetoric of ‘moral values’ into a legitimate technique of population management (Makarychev and Medvedev 2015; Rodin 2015; Shpakovskaya 2015). In this regard, multiple others ( e.g.…”

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The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

Davidenko

2017

Ageing and Society

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In a youth-centred culture, where ageing is associated with physical and mental decline, investment in a youthful appearance promises access to socially valuable resources. The need for regular care for the self, primarily through consumption, constitutes part of the narrative of successful or positive ageing. Due to its emphasis on self-reliance and efforts to remain healthy, productive and youthful, the discourse of successful ageing has been seen as intersecting with a neoliberal rationality, or a shift of responsibility for risks associated with ageing from the state to the individual. While some authors criticise an emphasis on individual effort to maintain personal wellbeing for a lack of attention to structural factors, others view such an approach favourably as a way of transcending state paternalism. In this paper, I engage with the discourse of 'responsibilisation' drawing on the interviews with middle-aged, middleclass women from Moscow about their experiences of ageing. I employ the theoretical framework of 'governmentality' to demonstrate how the interviewed women's attempts to make sense of what it meant to age 'appropriately' within their milieus informed both their awareness of a need to improve and reinvent the self constantly through consumption in the context of post-Soviet Russian society, and their questioning of and resistance to this pressure.

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The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

Davidenko

2017

Ageing and Society

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“…Different with Hall and Irvine (2009), Shpakovskaya (2015), found out that mothers in Russia, especially from middle and above social class, they participating in online class as they felt that the available free parenting class from government was not enough to fulfill their need of information. Thus they are willing to participate in paid parenting class to find out more specific information.…”

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“…Often, this process held online. In addition, Shpakovskaya (2015) found that motherhood in Russia is now become lifestyle and middle class practice.…”

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‘I Become More Confident’: Mother Use of Online Platform for Parenting Information

Alamiyah¹

2020

Proceedings of the 2nd International Media Conference 2019 (IMC 2019)

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There are an increasing trends that mothers today are turn to Internet to search information about parenting. While in the past, new parents would turn to their own mother or closest family to consult about issues related to how to raise children. Thus the research explores how parents in Indonesia use online platforms to find about parenting related topics. Examine the motivations to search on online platform, how they use the platform and also how the interaction between members on the online community. To explore these mothers' experiences, a qualitative method is employed. It includes open-ended questionnaires and telephone interview. To enrich the data, observation was done to the online platforms mentioned on the interview. The information were collected, organized, categorized and analyzed based on the emerging themes. The study reveals that parents use Internet platform to find more empirical and reliable information related to parenting. They also try to find support from peers and develop relationship among online community member. The topics emerge on the discussion between parents varies from children tantrum to light topic as such discount from nearest shop. The platform used by mothers to find the information is varies. This online information and online discussion has empower the mother as parent, it increase awareness of the importance of parenting knowledge, increasing confidence related to their parenting journey and help mother to make better decision making.

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“…It is mainly oriented towards increasing population and offering financial support to families with two or more children, while childcare is delegated to mothers only (Chernova 2012, 75). Women are responsible to the state for the reproduction of the nation but are left to tread this path alone (Shpakovskaya 2015(Shpakovskaya , 1584.…”

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The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy

2022

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List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xi Series Editors' Foreword xviii Acknowledgements xix Preface. Ambivalence: practices, patterns and particles of power xx Alena Ledeneva 1 Introduction 1 Zoya Kotelnikova and Vadim Radaev Part I. Interdependency of political power and economic governance: A macro perspective 2 Interrelation between economic freedom and democracy: The case of post-communist countries 14 Marek Dabrowski 3 The pitfalls of rent-seeking: Alternative mechanisms of resource rent collection in Russia and Venezuela 36 Alexei Pobedonostsev 4 Contradictions of centralization: Four models of interaction between Russian rural communities and government and agribusiness 58

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How to be a Good Mother: The Case of Middle Class Mothering in Russia

Cited by 10 publications

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The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

The ambiguities of self-governance: Russian middle-aged middle-class women's reflections on ageing

‘I Become More Confident’: Mother Use of Online Platform for Parenting Information

The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy

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