Navigating Intensive Motherhood: Inventiveness and Agency Among Low-Income Single Mothers

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.journals.vu.lt/STEPP/article/view/38926" target="_blank" >https://www.journals.vu.lt/STEPP/article/view/38926</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/STEPP.2026.32.1" target="_blank" >10.15388/STEPP.2026.32.1</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Navigating Intensive Motherhood: Inventiveness and Agency Among Low-Income Single Mothers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This article explores how the ideology of intensive motherhood is reflected in, and shapes, the experiences of low-income single mothers in Czechia. By focusing on this group, the study advances understanding of the diffusion of the intensive motherhood ideology and the intersectional aspects of social reproduction. We demonstrate that, while intensive motherhood norms influence maternal practices in Czechia, low-income single mothers respond with inventive adaptations and reframing that reflect their specific circumstances. These forms of agency of low-income single mothers are often overlooked when their mothering is viewed solely through the lens of resource deficits relative to the dominant norms. Despite precarious conditions, these mothers maintain a positive maternal identity and dignity by adapting, reframing, or, at times, challenging the prevailing norms of intensive mothering. Our findings show that, in striving to meet the dominant norms, low-income single mothers undertake a range of additional, highly emotion-, labour- and time-intensive activities on a daily basis, yet these activities remain unrecognised in traditional conceptualisations of intensive motherhood, which are largely based on white middle-class women. In the neoliberal context, however, these unacknowledged efforts contribute to their further marginalisation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Navigating Intensive Motherhood: Inventiveness and Agency Among Low-Income Single Mothers

Popis výsledku anglicky

This article explores how the ideology of intensive motherhood is reflected in, and shapes, the experiences of low-income single mothers in Czechia. By focusing on this group, the study advances understanding of the diffusion of the intensive motherhood ideology and the intersectional aspects of social reproduction. We demonstrate that, while intensive motherhood norms influence maternal practices in Czechia, low-income single mothers respond with inventive adaptations and reframing that reflect their specific circumstances. These forms of agency of low-income single mothers are often overlooked when their mothering is viewed solely through the lens of resource deficits relative to the dominant norms. Despite precarious conditions, these mothers maintain a positive maternal identity and dignity by adapting, reframing, or, at times, challenging the prevailing norms of intensive mothering. Our findings show that, in striving to meet the dominant norms, low-income single mothers undertake a range of additional, highly emotion-, labour- and time-intensive activities on a daily basis, yet these activities remain unrecognised in traditional conceptualisations of intensive motherhood, which are largely based on white middle-class women. In the neoliberal context, however, these unacknowledged efforts contribute to their further marginalisation.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-18014S" target="_blank" >GA21-18014S: Diverzita postojů a praktik péče o děti: jejich zdroje a dopady</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2026

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Socialine Teorija Empirija Politika ir Praktika

ISSN

1648-2425

e-ISSN

2345-0266

Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

30/7/2025

Stát vydavatele periodika

LT - Litevská republika

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

8-29

Kód UT WoS článku

001572990100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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