Being a Good Mom: Low-Income, Black Single Mothers Negotiate Intensive Mothering
Being a Good Mom: Low-Income, Black Single Mothers Negotiate Intensive Mothering
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DOI：
10.1177/0192513x13490279
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Brenton, Joslyn
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作者：
Elliott, Sinikka;Powell, Rachel;Brenton, Joslyn
强化母爱意识形态的顽强性——好母亲应该在母性教育中投入大量的时间、金钱、精力和情感劳动——这一观念是有据可查的，尤其是在富裕的白人母亲中。根据对 16 名低收入黑人单亲母亲的采访，我们分析了性别、种族、阶级和强化母爱意识形态如何相互交叉来塑造这些母亲的育儿方式。母亲们反复强调牺牲、自力更生和保护的重要性。总之，好母亲为了孩子而牺牲；他们自力更生，并教导自己的孩子也如此；他们保护自己的孩子。我们认为，低收入母亲在孩子的成长缺乏更大的社会支持的情况下接受并进行密集的养育，并以牺牲她们自己的情感和身体健康为代价。
The tenacity of the intensive mothering ideologythe notion that good mothers should invest vast amounts of time, money, energy, and emotional labor in motheringis well documented, particularly among affluent White mothers. Drawing on 16 interviews with low-income, Black single mothers, we analyze how gender, race, class, and the ideology of intensive mothering intersect to shape these mothers' parenting. Mothers repeatedly emphasized the importance of sacrifice, self-reliance, and protection. In short, good mothers sacrifice for their children; they are self-reliant and teach their children to be this way too; and they protect their children. We argue that low-income mothers embrace and perform intensive mothering in the absence of larger social supports for their children's upbringing and at a cost to their own emotional and physical well-being.