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PARENTING IN DIFFERENT STAGES: RACE, CLASS,GENDER & PRACTICES OF MOTHERING

    1 Author(s):  DR.BUDHADEO PD.SINGH

Vol -  2, Issue- 1 ,         Page(s) : 40 - 54  (2011 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH

Abstract

Drawing on interviews with white middle-class mothers, this article examines the ways in which mothering involves practices and identities which are classed, raced and gendered. In particular, it focuses on the construction and articulation of middle -classiness with whiteness. The article examines the women’s descriptions ofhow they constructed social networks as mothers, chose schools for their children and planned their after-school activities. It argues that these activities involved in being mothers and bringing up children can be understood as per formative of race, class and gender. That is, practices of mothering are implicated in repeating and re-inscribing classed and raced discourses.

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