Plotting Maternity in Three Persons

Amber E. Kinser

doi:10.1177/1077800412439528

Plotting Maternity in Three Persons

Amber E. Kinser

Department of Communication Studies and Storytelling

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Abstract

This performance text examines complexities of personal and maternal identity in family life. Speaking in first, second, and third person voices, the author offers autoethnographic accounts of the tensions between separateness and connectedness, normative and subjective motherhood, and novice and seasoned perspectives. The piece functions as a text of resistance that pushes against normative expectations about maternal emotion and child-centered maternal dialogue and gives voice to evolutions in mother wit and lifeworlds. (Contains 1 note.)

Original language	American English
Journal	Qualitative Inquiry
Volume	18
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800412439528
State	Published - Jun 1 2012

Keywords

Family life
autobiographies
child rearing
emotional response
ethnography
family environment
mothers
resistance (Psychology)
social attitudes

Disciplines

Family, Life Course, and Society
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication

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