Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants

Starting from a survey through interview with mothers who are in a “single parent” situation and a social vulnerability situation, this article is questioning under a gender angle, maternity through its abandon. The article enlightens an absence of social dual-parenthood, especially anchored in the...

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Main Author: Jessica Pothet
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société 2016-12-01
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/3901
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description Starting from a survey through interview with mothers who are in a “single parent” situation and a social vulnerability situation, this article is questioning under a gender angle, maternity through its abandon. The article enlightens an absence of social dual-parenthood, especially anchored in the precarious pole of working classes, and shows that the disengagement of the father combined to a social and relational precarity may participate in a redefinition of maternity. The enquiry shows us two important elements, on one hand, it shows how this maternal role under tension can renew itself far away from norms of maternal devotion, as we can see with the women interrogated who choose to place their children in social services and on the other hand, it shows how a relationship of desire and an affective, emotional relationship can be rebuilt after that.
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Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
Genre, Sexualité et Société
children
motherhood
parenthood
experience
social control
title Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
title_full Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
title_fullStr Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
title_full_unstemmed Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
title_short Déprises et réagencement de la maternité. Regards sur les expériences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
title_sort deprises et reagencement de la maternite regards sur les experiences de femmes ayant fait placer leurs enfants
topic children
motherhood
parenthood
experience
social control
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