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perceptions between working mothers and stay-at-home mothers can be seen simply through the transformation of perceptions from women who have been in both groups.
Taking the assumption to be true that the stigma do represent...
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question asked that if working women’s perceptions are dominant, how are stay-at-home mothers’ less-dominant perceptions seen as incompetent? Again, a preliminary question that should be asked is whether working mothers’...
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The second area that shows the perceived incompetence of stay-at-home mothers’ perceptions was the theme of guilt. Although they focus on validating themselves in the topics of feminism, education, work ethic, and economics,...
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The theme of validation illustrated how stay-at-home mothers transform their perceptions, but it was not so much evidenced by the subthemes that emerged as it was by the subthemes that did not emerge. First, let it be noted that...
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career over antidepressants, not career over family” (Molinolo, 2007, p. 46). In addition, Steiner herself wrote in the introduction, “I don’t understand moms who find happiness staying home all the time, without work and...
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not working. Again, this gives reason to believe they are designing their reasoning to be understood by working women, especially working mothers. Working mothers understand the amount of time they sacrifice with their children...
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aspects of being a mother: that fact that her work is rather unpredictable, selfless, and thankless. If the mother had left “chauffeur” in original terms such as “I spend a lot of time driving my kids around to their...
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and Hartsock’s (1983) theories is important to consider if these theories are to extend into a new generation of research.
Conclusion
The purpose of this thesis was to research stay-at-home mothers as a muted group. Using...
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Appendix A
Results Chart
Social Stigmas
Self-Validation
Guilt Feminism Stay at home mothers are the anti-feminist by staying at home They do fit into the feminist vision—staying home was a choice Wonder whether they are...
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children….[I] am sincerely sorry I had not remembered her important work in the past” (Rosin, 2004, p. C01). By failing to acknowledge what she had implied about stay-at-home mothers, and only recognizing Mrs. Bush’s...
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Times”, 1998; Crittenden, 2010, p. ix). In fact, President Clinton’s fulfillment of making the welfare of children his top priority was by expanding child care options, and even offering tax credits to those who used...
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Muted Motherhood: A Standpoint Analysis of Stay-at-Home Mothers
Elisabeth Day McNaughtan
Dr. Matthew H. Barton, Thesis Supervisor
Abstract The purpose of this research was to study stay-at-home mothers as a muted group. The...
Myself and wife and Father and Mother Whittaker attended a supper party at Brother Chatterly's. President J. C. L. Smith came in from Parowan in the evening. Wednesday, January 12: Very sharp frost. Spent the day at the Iron Works--had 25 men at...
necessity of having a full attendance of children and grown people at conference next Saturday and Sunday. Sept. 18-19.
. . . . Conference - U.T. Jones released as Stake President.
Oct. 20, 1909. . . L. W. Jones said he had been very much...
ness to children suffering with defective teeth, tonsils and tuberculosis. Board released in 1931. Lottie Farrer, president; Ruth Wittwer and Claudia Morgan, counselors; Alpha Stapley, secretary and treasurer; Martha Paice, assistant. Ministering...
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whatever. But yeah, I think the...
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little girls in bikinis and helmets and they were Rosemary‘s age into the main part of town
and I was like what are you doing? That doesn‘t go on. Where‘s your parents, you know?
All kids all over the place. And I...