Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/15327086241260452
Abstract
Intensive motherhood is a pervasive discourse that enables and constrains mothers’ choices. However, intensive motherhood does not only affect mothers; it teaches each of us how we should judge a mother’s goodness. In this essay, I use autoethnographic moments of my life to explore how good mothers enact intensive motherhood discourse, highlighting how difficult it will be to undo the material effects of a discourse like intensive motherhood. Still, I argue that identifying how mothers have been made facilitates how to make mothers differently, offering hope that these hurtful discourses can be altered toward something better, however slowly.
Publication Date
7-29-2024
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Cummins, Molly Wiant, "Trying to be Good Enough: Exploring Enculturative Intensive Motherhood Discourse" (2024). SAGE Open Access Agreement Publications-Archive. 60.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_sageoapubs/60