完成 "未完成的革命"?受过大学教育的母亲对强化母爱的抵制

IF 3.9 1区 社会学 Q2 MANAGEMENT
Lake Lui, Adam Ka-lok Cheung
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集约型母爱是一种阶级化和性别化的做法,最适合由家庭主妇来执行,这是一种占主导地位的育儿意识形态,尤其是在贫富差距悬殊的发达社会。具有讽刺意味的是,在这些社会中,妇女往往受过良好的教育,有良好的就业前景,人们期望她们能从家庭义务中解脱出来。面对工作和家庭制度所形成的相互竞争的期望,受过大学教育的母亲如何考虑终止或限制她们参与劳动力市场或拥有工作,同时解决既是工人又是母亲的道德困境?我们比较了 33 位受过大学教育、从事不同职业的香港母亲,并构建了描述母亲和工作意识形态交织如何形成工作与家庭安排的类型。我们特别关注那些对工作有强烈责任感,但却有着不同母性意识形态的母亲。有些人信奉密集型母职意识形态。事实证明,她们对性别本质论的信仰使她们在工作和家庭中都感到疲惫不堪。离家在外时,这些母亲会监督其工作单位的家政服务人员。另一些妇女则将自己的职业视为完美母亲身份的象征--一种母亲的综合形式,因此,她们不会因为将育儿责任下放而感到内疚。我们认为,鉴于工作场所中根深蒂固的性别不平等以及男性在分担家务劳动方面进展缓慢,综合母亲角色在口头上和实践中的出现反映了女性努力将 "未完成的革命 "推向终点。
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Finishing the “unfinished revolution”?: College-educated mothers' resistance to intensive mothering

Intensive mothering, a classed and gendered practice optimally performed by stay-at-home mothers, is a dominant parenting ideology, particularly in developed societies with wide disparities in wealth. Ironically, in these societies, women tend to be well educated and have good employment prospects that are expected to free them from domestic obligations. Facing competing expectations shaped by the institutions of work and the family, how do college-educated mothers consider ending or limiting their participation in the workforce or holding jobs while resolving the moral dilemma of being both a worker and a mother? We compared 33 college-educated Hong Kong mothers engaged in different professions and constructed typologies that describe how intersecting ideologies of mothering and work shape work-family arrangements. We paid special attention to mothers with strong commitment to their work, but with different ideologies about mothering. Some espouse the ideology of intensive mothering. Their belief in gender essentialism proved exhausting for them, both at work and at home. While away from home, these mothers supervised domestic helpers from their workplaces. Other women value their professions as emblematic of their identity as the perfect mother—an integrated form of mothering, thus feeling no guilt for delegating childcare responsibilities. We argue that given the entrenched gender inequality in workplaces and men's slow progress in doing their share of domestic work, the emergence of integrated mothering both rhetorically and in practice reflects women's striving to bring the “unfinished revolution” closer to the finish line.

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来源期刊
CiteScore
11.50
自引率
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期刊介绍: Gender, Work & Organization is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. The journal was established in 1994 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. It covers research on the role of gender on the workfloor. In addition to the regular issues, the journal publishes several special issues per year and has new section, Feminist Frontiers,dedicated to contemporary conversations and topics in feminism.
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