Mature Unwed Mothers: Narratives of Moral Resistance / Edition 1

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Overview

This book describes the moral decision-making process toward unwed motherhood based on a fifteen-year longitudinal study of fifty Israeli single women aged 30 and over, each of whom decided to have a child on her own following a short- or long-term relationship with a male partner. The author views these women as conscious resisters to the societal script of marriage-reproduction-motherhood and documents their narratives of moral subjectivity.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780306465239
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
  • Publication date: 9/5/2007
  • Edition description: 2001
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 183
  • Product dimensions: 9.21 (w) x 6.14 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction - Motherhood as a New War Zone 1
Moral Psychology in War 4
1 Motherhood as a Moral Position 11
The "Separate" Moral Position 12
"Separate" Moral Resistance in War 14
"Separate" Moral Resistance in the Family 15
The "Connected" Moral Position 16
"Connected" Moral Resistance in War 17
"Connected" Moral Resistance in the Family 19
2 Motherhood as a Wish 23
The Wish for a Child 25
Age 30 - A Cut-off Point? 29
"Thirty-Nothing"? 33
The Decision to Have a Child 35
3 Motherhood as a Decision - 1983 41
The Origin of the Idea of Out of Wedlock Childbearing 44
Past Abortions 46
Type of Pregnancy 47
Expectations Regarding the Child's Gender 48
Reasons for Planning and Keeping the Pregnancy 48
Coping with the Consequences of the Action 50
Childbearing and Self-Satisfaction 51
The Experience of the Father 52
Present Dilemmas and Future Orientation 54
The Economic Dilemma 58
4 Motherhood as an Experience - 1990 65
Miri, 43, a Teacher, Mother of a 13-Year-Old Son 65
Roni, 44, an Artist, Mother of a 14-Year-Old Son 70
Shimrit, 50, a Clerk, Mother of a 13-Year-Old Son 75
Tina, 50, a Retired Army Officer, Mother of a Nine-Year-Old Son 80
Nurit (1990) 50, Elementary School Teacher, Mother of a Seven-Year-Old Son 83
5 Motherhood as Development - 1997 91
Ayelet (1983) 37, Mother of a 3-Year-Old Daughter 91
Ayelet (1990) 95
Ayelet (1997) 102
6 Motherhood as Narrative of Moral Resistance 109
Women's Narrative of Resistance 116
Geography of the Possible? 116
Redefining "Otherness"? 118
Liberation from the Other's Discourse 119
Ways of Facing Conflicts? 121
A Practice of Preservative Love? 122
Ways of Living with Others? 122
Mature Unwed Motherhood as a Missing Text in Therapy 124
Language 125
Reality 125
Self 126
Truth 126
Knowledge 127
Power 127
7 Conclusion 129
Motherhood as a Moral Position 129
Moral Psychology and Resistance Reconsidered 136
References 149
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