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Heffernan, Valerie and Stone, Katherine (2021) International responses to regretting motherhood. In: Fitzgerald, Angela, (ed.) Women's Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap : Gender Inequalities from Multiple Global Perspectives. Sustainable Development Goals Series . Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 121-133. ISBN 9789811611735
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2_11
Abstract
Recent debates about maternal regret, prompted by the publication of Israeli sociologist Orna Donath’s (2015) research with mothers who admit to regretting their motherhood, have manifested differently in different cultural contexts. This chapter situates Tiina Sihto and Armi Mustosmäki’s analysis of a discussion of regret among contributors to an online forum for mothers in Finland (see Chap. 10) within the international context by comparing the Finnish discussion to similar media debates in Spain and the Anglophone countries. Our analysis reveals that while the idea that a woman might regret her motherhood is more readily accepted in countries where institutional support for mothers is lacking, there is a general acceptance that the inordinate pressures placed on mothers in neoliberal societies to negotiate the competing demands of family and paid employment make it inevitable that some women will experience regret. Moreover, we find evidence that the open conversation about regret triggered by Donath’s research is perceived as a further step towards destabilizing traditional attitudes towards gender roles.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School of Modern Languages and Cultures | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Motherhood , Motherhood -- Social aspects , Working mothers, Work and family | ||||||||
Series Name: | Sustainable Development Goals Series | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer Nature | ||||||||
Place of Publication: | Singapore | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9789811611735 | ||||||||
Book Title: | Women's Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap : Gender Inequalities from Multiple Global Perspectives | ||||||||
Editor: | Fitzgerald, Angela | ||||||||
Official Date: | 21 June 2021 | ||||||||
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Number of Pages: | 155 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 121-133 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-16-1174-2 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 December 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 June 2021 | ||||||||
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