The everyday dinner usually involves a number of different and sometimes conflicting ambitions that may include striving for self-fulfillment and striving to care for one’s family and society at large. To understand the consumption that occurs in connection with these ambitions, consumer researchers must understand the context surrounding the everyday dinner. In this dissertation theories of practice are utilized as a conceptual framework to emphasize the importance of context. Theories of practice have gained renewed interest within the field of consumption. Yet, Consumer Culture Theory (CCT) has neglected practice theories’ ability to operationalize the consumption context. The aim of this dissertation is to develop further CCT’s practice perspective to increase the understanding of the consumption context and thereby better understand consumption as a social and cultural phenomenon. An ethnographic approach is employed to identify what practices operate within a complex consumption situation such as the everyday dinner among single mothers; how these practices incorporate consumption in their strivings and how the different practices operating within the consumption situation interact with one another. This new approach comes to the conclusion that mothering, defined as a meta-practice, dominated the consumption situation and organized the other practices involved. A meta-practice is one with major influence over consumption and thus a type of practice consumption researchers should look for. Furthermore in Western society consumption situations, like the everyday dinner, seem to be especially important when it comes to anchoring meta-practices and thereby the social order. A preliminary characterization of the meta-practice is proposed as consisting of four different traits: I) its impact on the social order; II) its generalizability, density and superiority; III) its regulation and IV) its stability or slow change. However, more studies are necessary to explore these characteristics further.

Master of Arts / Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work / Lisa A. Melander / The number of women incarcerated within the American penal system has been increasing in recent years. Coinciding with this rise in the incarceration rate for women, there has been increasing concern regarding women parenting behind bars and how incarceration impacts a woman's identity as a mother. As such the purpose of this paper is to examine the connection between participation in contact maintenance programs at the Topeka, Kansas Correctional Facility and their resulting impact on identity work using a sample of 34 incarcerated mothers who participated in this contact maintenance program. Results revealed that through participation in contact maintenance programs incarcerated mothers begin to develop and sustain a more pro- social image of themselves as 'good mothers.' Foundational practices of parenting and the development and sustainment of the mother-child bond are reinforced to facilitate the development of a positive self-image and to lay the groundwork for successful parenting post- release.

The life history research reported here, explores Becoming, Othering, and Mothering experiences of Korean immigrant women with White dominant culture English speaking Canadian-born spouses, and is guided by the research questions: (1) How do the Korean immigrant women who have White dominant culture English speaking Canadian-born spouses describe their linguistic and cultural integration into their intercultural families and Canadian society? (2) How do they negotiate and reconstruct their identities? (3) How do they describe their strengths and challenges as foreign wives and immigrant mothers in intercultural families and as immigrants in Canadian society? and (4) How do they deal with their children’s dual languages, cultures and identities? Multiple life history interviews were conducted with seven participants; additionally, the researcher’s autoethnography was included. The data were examined through reflexive analysis—within-case analysis, and across-case analysis—and interpreted through an interpretivist perspective (Crotty, 1998; Mack, 2010). Emergent themes in three main categories include—becoming, othering and mothering—each of which is discussed in terms of language socialization, linguistic and cultural power relations, and the impact of linguistic and cultural integration and power relations on participants’ identities. This research brings to attention the circumstances of linguistically, culturally, and racially marginalized minority people in Canada. When the intercultural family is viewed as a microcosm of Canada’s multicultural society, this research provides to both dominant-culture Canadians and minority group people, awareness of how linguistic, cultural, and racial hegemony marginalizes minority people in Canada. / May 2016

O enfoque desta investigação psicanalítica foi o de estudar a importância da mãe como ambiente primário facilitador ou perturbador da continuidade de ser do bebê e teve como fundamentação teórica os conceitos do pediatra e psicanalista britânico D.W.Winnicott. O método utilizado foi o Método de Observação da Relação Mãe-Bebê na Família criado pela psicanalista britânica Esther Bick. Dentro da abordagem winnicottiana são de grande importância todos aqueles (profissionais da saúde e familiares) que compõem o ambiente de apoio, necessário para que a mãe, a partir dos últimos meses de gestação até o final do primeiro mês de vida do seu bebê, mergulhe num estado designado pelo autor como preocupação materna primária. Isso contribui para que se estabeleça entre ela e seu filho uma comunicação empática, envolvendo identificação de necessidades seguida de cuidados com habilidade e afetuosidade. Um bom começo compõe a base para o processo de amadurecimento saudável. O caso deste estudo, realizado em catorze meses através de observações semanais em ambiente domiciliar da família, permitiu o acompanhamento da maternagem da mãe em luto por ter perdido sua mãe, de forma inesperada, vítima de pneumonia, seis dias antes do parto. A morte da avó materna encerrou a possibilidade concreta de convivência dela entre os familiares, bem como significou a perda de holding (apoio) da gestante desde o momento do parto ao exercício da maternagem durante os primeiros meses. O ambiente primário foi afetado e os efeitos do luto materno serão demonstrados ao longo desta dissertação / The focus of this psychoanalytic investigation was to examine the importance of the mother as the primary facilitating or disturbing environment for the continuity of the babys being as based on the theoretical concepts of the British pediatrician and psychoanalyst D.W.Winnicott. The \"Method of Observation of the Mother-Baby Relationship in the Family\", created by the British psychoanalyst Esther Bick was used. According to Winnicott, all those health professionals and family members that make up the supportive environment needed by the mother from the last months of pregnancy to the end of the first month of the baby\'s life are of great importance when plunged into a state designated as \"primary maternal preoccupation\". This helps to establish an empathic communication between the mother and her child involving identification of needs followed by skill and care with warmth. A good beginning for the baby provides the basis for a healthy maturation process. This investigation was conducted over fourteen months by weekly observations in the family home which permitted monitoring the mothering by the mother while grieving due to the unexpected death of her mother as a victim of pneumonia six days before delivery. The loss of the maternal grandmother ended the concrete possibility of her participation in the family and entailed the loss of holding for the mother prior to birth and in the practice of mothering during the first months. The primary environment was affected and the effects of this maternal grief will be described throughout this dissertation

The overall aim of the research was to understand the potential impact of sustained part-time working on women’s identities with regards to motherhood and work. Despite an implicit assumption in public discourse, policy and research that mothers will resume full-time careers once their children are ‘older’, half of working mothers with their youngest child at secondary school are working part-time (ONS, Q3, 2011). Often in the literature ‘good’ part-time working has been framed as short-term (see for example Tilly, 1996). The part-time ‘hidden brain drain’ (Equal Opportunities Commission, 2005) has been described as a waste of education and skills (Connolly and Gregory, 2010) and contributing to gender inequality (Walby, 2007). This PhD explored the life stories of twenty university educated, partnered mothers of older children (youngest at secondary school), who had mostly worked part-time since becoming mothers. Dialogic narrative analysis (Frank, 2010) was used to explore how these women made sense of where they had ended up through their story telling. A key finding is that for these women ‘becoming’ a part-time working mother was neither an informed ‘choice’, nor a fixed orientation, but was an ongoing process of negotiation, within a matrix of inter-related, constantly shifting and interacting tensions. Compromises to their jobs often became more extensive than expected and a continuing need to ‘be there’ for teenagers was unanticipated. Damage to ‘career’ is conceptualised as a ‘creeping trauma’. This is considered in light of the mothering stories indicating this was a price worth paying. The majority of women were engaging in a narrative of reorientation, using various strategies to reframe standards of ‘good’ working and the meaning of work within life. Success in reorientation differed according to individual experiences of constraints and opportunities.

Submitted by Eunice Novais (enovais@uepg.br) on 2017-08-21T17:57:14Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Juliana Przybysz.pdf: 42658430 bytes, checksum: fb6aa6eaf09cb5b25acf9c70a4e2eb44 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-21T17:57:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 811 bytes, checksum: e39d27027a6cc9cb039ad269a5db8e34 (MD5) Juliana Przybysz.pdf: 42658430 bytes, checksum: fb6aa6eaf09cb5b25acf9c70a4e2eb44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-31 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta pesquisa tem como questão central: como se estabelecem as espacialidades de mulheres prostitutas no exercício de maternagens, na cidade de Ponta Grossa, Paraná? Para respondê-la, foram realizados dois levantamentos dos locais de prostituição na cidade, nos anos de 2013 e 2016, envolvendo a aplicação de 115 questionários. A partir desse levantamento, foi possível identificar três locais de prostituição utilizados por mulheres de baixa renda como as boates, bares e ruas específicas da cidade. A identificação das mulheres mães que exerciam a prostituição possibilitou a criação de vínculos durante as observações de campo e a realização de 12 entrevistas em profundidade. A inteligibilidade do fenômeno foi possível por meio da análise das entrevistas conforme metodologia de Silva e Silva (2016). As redes semânticas de sentidos do discurso das mulheres mães que exercem a prostituição na cidade de Ponta Grossa permitem afirmar que apesar de imperar a dicotomia das figuras de mãe e da prostituta, inclusive no imaginário das próprias prostitutas, esta é fruto do discurso hegemônico. As práticas simultâneas da maternagem e da atividade comercial sexual desenvolvidas pelas mulheres entrevistadas elucidam estratégias de ações complementares e interdependentes que fundem a identidade materna à da prostituta. Dessa forma, elas também evidenciam a constituição de um espaço relacional em que o público e o privado não estão opostos e dicotomizados. / This research has as central question: how are the spatialities of prostitutes women established in the practice of maternity, in the city of Ponta Grossa, Paraná? For respond to it, two surveys of the prostitution sites in the city were made, in the years 2013 and 2016, involving the application of 115 questionnaires. From this survey, it was possible to identify three places of prostitution used by low-income women, such as nightclubs, bars and specific streets of the city. The identification of mothers women who were carry out the prostitution has allowed the creation of bonds during the field observations and conduct 12 in-depth interviews. The intelligibility of the phenomenon was made possible through the analysis of the interviews according to Silva e Silva's methodology (2016). The semantic networks of the discourses of mother’s women who practice the prostitution in the city of Ponta Grossa make it possible to affirm that despite the dichotomy between the figures of the mother and the prostitute rules, even in the imagination of the prostitutes themselves, this is the result of the hegemonic discourse. The simultaneous practices of mothering and commercial sexual activity developed by the women interviewed elucidate strategies of complementary and interdependent actions that fuse the maternal identity to the prostitute identify. Thus, they also evidence the constitution of a relational space in which the public and the private are not opposed and dichotomized.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Sandra Regina Colucci.pdf: 8156122 bytes, checksum: 430c87a882f06ebdd6bc450c4429f603 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-18 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This research aimed to capture the constitution movement of different practices of mothering through fragments filtered by the hegemonic consciousness of documents, seeking historicizing the construction of the meanings assigned to it in his subjective process. The life of the city scaled the perspective of social history through different eyes, in the diversity of languages and the multiplicity of their code authorizes the analysis of the relationships established by different speeches that wove responsibility networks and guilt mothers front of child crime, forms of female labor, disease, death and food practices. In this sense, the theme of Between blame and praise: mothering in normative discourses" appears woven in the pursuit of building meanings to different feminine care practices with their children in ways of working, living, live, to have fun, to eat, to women's daily lives. Our goal was to analyze the discourses that allow heterogeneous seek the local knowledge, perception of other times / places in concurrency multidirectional experiences, in the seizure of tensions and confrontations inherent experiences, as well as on the construction of representations in its multiple interference the strategies of social groups, producing new study references that allow the expansion of women's studies / Esta pesquisa buscou captar o movimento de constituição de diferentes práticas de maternagem, através de fragmentos filtrados pela consciência hegemônica dos documentos, buscando historicizar a construção dos significados a ela atribuídos em seu processo de subjetivação. O cotidiano da cidade dimensionado na perspectiva da História Social através de olhares distintos, na diversidade de linguagens e na multiplicidade de seus códigos, autoriza a análise das relações estabelecidas por diferentes discursos que teceram redes de responsabilidade e culpa das mães frente à criminalidade infantil, formas de trabalho feminino, doenças, morte e práticas alimentares. Neste sentido, a temática de Entre verrinas e ditirambos: maternagem nos discursos normativos se apresenta tecida na busca da construção de significados atribuídos a diferentes práticas femininas de cuidados com os filhos, de modos de trabalhar, viver, morar, de se divertir, de se alimentar, ao cotidiano feminino. Nosso objetivo foi analisar os discursos que permitissem buscar o heterogêneo nos saberes locais, na percepção de outros tempos/espaços, na simultaneidade de vivências multidirecionais, na apreensão de tensões e confrontações inerentes às experiências, assim como sobre a construção das representações nas suas múltiplas interferências nas estratégias dos grupos sociais, produzindo novos referenciais de estudo que permitam a expansão dos estudos das mulheres

This project seeks to understand the construction of a personal narrative concerning a primary parental figure using the process of collaborative autoethnography. In order to properly encapsulate the author’s lived experience, primary influential factors were considered imperative in allowing for a fuller representation. Thus, the author’s story joins those of her siblings to highlight the paradoxical process inherent in unearthing one’s singular perception. This project primarily aims to explore the complexity of autoethnography while simultaneously interrogating the cultural discourse surrounding motherhood and academic writing. By having a close and personal understanding of the subject matter as well as the research participants, the author was provided a unique glimpse into the ways family stories are both co-constructed and individually recounted

Excerpt: MOTHERING A SON WITH SPECIAL NEEDS, or special-mothering, as I call it, is often solitary, crazy-making work. Several years ago, in part inspired by DeAnna Chester’s personal storied account of infertility, I started actively examining my own maternal story. Eventually, a desire surfaced in me to more openly witness (Frank), voicing my maternal experiences so that other special-parents know they are not alone. From the start, though, I wondered if I could witness in an ethical way. Granted, storytelling may be agency-generating, revealing previously unheard truths (Pitre, Kushner, and Hegadoren; Pitre, Kushner, Raine, and Hegadoren; Stevens). Still, as Kristin Langellier...

Excerpt: My best efforts at parenting weren’t enough to make him stay. My son no longer wanted to call me “Mom.”