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    Mums, Dummies and Dirty ‘Dids’: the dummy as a symbolic representation of mothering?

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    Authors
    Whitmarsh, Judy
    Issue Date
    2008
    
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    Abstract
    The bio medical expert literature, although contested, associates the use of dummies, soothers or pacifiers, with illness, dental malformation, impaired speech and language, and working-class mothering. This article suggests this negative perspective has filtered, via experts and the media, into public narratives of ‘good’ mothering. Interviews with 20 disadvantaged mothers demonstrate the complex negotiations undertaken to integrate dummy use into their personal ‘good-mothering’ narratives. Representing their hitherto ignored voices in the dummy debate allows a consideration of the context of, and influences on, dummy use. The article argues that rather than a symbol of inadequate working-class mothering, dummy use is a complex, highly negotiated, situated mothering practice.
    Citation
    Children & Society, 22(4): 278-290.
    Publisher
    Wiley InterScience.
    Journal
    Children & Society
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/47436
    DOI
    10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00082.x
    Additional Links
    http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120081330/abstract
    Type
    Journal article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    09510605
    10990860
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1111/j.1099-0860.2007.00082.x
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