Gender and parenting : the (re)production and (re)negotiation of gender identity in the context of first time parenting.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Quayle, Michael Frank. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Forder-Eagles, Poppy Jacqueline. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-12T09:41:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-05-12T09:41:04Z | |
| dc.date.created | 2016 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description | Master of Social Science in Psychology. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg 2016. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This study set out to investigate the ways in which first‐time parents construct their gender identity as they grapple with a new addition to the family soon after the birth of their first child. Two white middle‐class heterosexual couples participated in the semi‐structured interviews. The study took a social constructionist perspective and the data analysis followed a critical discourse analysis approach. The broad findings are fivefold: competing ideologies persist within these comparatively modern couples’ discourses; equality is a disruption to gender identity; the construction of motherhood compared to fatherhood is asymmetrically evaluative; for these mothers, the transition from non‐parent to parent is a more embodied experience; and the transitional period of becoming a parent provides both opportunity and resistance towards new versions of gender identity. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10413/14457 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_ZA | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Parenting. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Gender. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Feminity. | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Masculinity. | en_US |
| dc.title | Gender and parenting : the (re)production and (re)negotiation of gender identity in the context of first time parenting. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |