The main approaches to the understanding of maternity as a social and cultural phenomenon
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-8-209-219
Abstract
The article discusses foreign and some Russian approaches to understanding motherhood in the framework of socio-humanitarian knowledge and identifies a research problem field related to this topic and represented by different fields of knowledge. The author aims to compare various positions on this topic, to identify debatable problems and to identify the main points of researchers’ thoughts. The author pay attention to concepts of motherhood and mothering, an intersectional approach, approaches that consider the historical formation of motherhood as a repressive institution and its transformation in the second half of the 20th century in the West, and also approaches to understanding the specifics of the formation of ideas about motherhood in the USSR and Russia.
About the Author
O. D. Gorbacheva
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Olga D. Gorbacheva
bld. 6, Miusskaya Square, Moscow, 125993
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Gorbacheva O.D. The main approaches to the understanding of maternity as a social and cultural phenomenon. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2019;(8(2)):209-219. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2019-8-209-219
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