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dc.contributor.authorTsouroufli, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-09T10:19:38Z
dc.date.available2019-07-09T10:19:38Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-24
dc.identifier.citationTsouroufli, M. (2018) ‘Gendered and classed performances of ‘good’ mother and academic in Greece’, European Journal of Women’s Studies. doi: 10.1177/1350506818802454.en
dc.identifier.issn1350-5068en
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1350506818802454en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/622525
dc.description.abstractThe enduring significance of gender and how it intersects with class in the organization of parenting, domestic and professional work has been obscured in contemporary neoliberal contexts. This article examines how Greek academic women conceptualize and enact motherhood and the classed and gendered strategies they adopt to reconcile ‘good’ motherhood with notions of the ‘good’ academic professional. It draws on semi-structured interviews about the career narratives of 15 women in Greek medical schools in the aftermath of the Greek recession. The analysis presented in this article is informed by a feminist post-structuralist paradigm and an emic approach to intersectionality. Motherhood emerged in the data as a dynamic concept, and a network of practices both constrained and enabled by gendered and classed family and work cultures. Drawing on a neoliberal ‘DIY’ and ‘having it all’ discourse, Greek mothers claimed that they could achieve almost anything professionally, if they organized their private lives sensibly. They drew on idealized discourses of motherhood, but they also contradicted these notions by doing non-traditional forms of motherhood, such as remote or transnational motherhood, afforded by their privileged social positioning and academic careers. Further research is required to investigate configurations of classed motherhood in less prestigious professions.en
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dc.publisherSageen
dc.relation.urlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350506818802454en
dc.subjectMotherhooden
dc.subjectacademicen
dc.subjectclassen
dc.subjectfeminist post-structuralist paradigmen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectintersectionalityen
dc.titleGendered and classed performances of ‘good’ mother and academic in Greeceen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalEuropean Journal of Women’s Studiesen
dc.date.updated2019-07-01T12:04:08Z
dc.date.accepted2018-09-03
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhampton
rioxxterms.identifier.project090719MTen
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-07-09en
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refterms.dateFOA2019-07-09T00:00:00Z


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