Mein Konto
Login Anmeldung
Alles
Warenkorb
Neuesten Trends
Belletristik
Sachbücher
Kinderbücher
Seltene Bücher
Musik
DVD & Blu-Ray
Kategorie
Wunschlisten
Warenkorb
Alles
Kostenloser Versand
Trustpilot
Unsere Operationen sind klimaneutral

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide von Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

€30.99
Zustand - Sehr Gut
Nur noch 1
Sehr Gut

Zusammenfassung

This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of 'good'mothering.

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide Zusammenfassung

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide: A Crying Baby and the Inability to Escape Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

Almost every story of maternal infanticide starts with 'the baby wouldn't stop crying'. But the story is more than' just bad or mentally ill mothers who lethally assault their baby. The story is about how hard it is to be a good mother in a society where women are expected to raise their children in their spare time and with their spare change. This expectation is grounded in a modern mothering ideology of unclear, overwhelming gender socialized expectations of what good mothers are supposed to be and do and assumes mothers have access to the economic and support resources necessary for this monumental job. The struggle of being a 'good mother' is common to all mothers and requires much more time and resources than most mothers have available to them. In today's society, almost all mothers must have a paying job just to make ends meet. Their job takes up most of their day and leaves little time for the demands of parenting. Gender segregated jobs and economic inequality of women leave mothers with pay checks that are insufficient for homecare, childcare, and healthcare and leaves them eking out basic goods such as food, diapers, and medicine. And they are powerless to change their situation. For some mothers, like the ones discussed in this book, the struggle overwhelms them and they commit a terrible, heavily-regretted act that costs them their child's life, their family, their freedom, and their piece of mind for the rest of their lives. This book examines the social, economic and cultural conditions and stressors under which mothers commit infanticide, and shows how these conditions affect the ability to meet societal and self-perceived expectations of 'good' mothering. As mothers perceive that they are failing to meet these expectations, the likelihood of violence toward the infant increases. This failure is the result of cultural and economic inequalities that are situated in the context of increasingly anomic, unrealistic expectations of mothering and decreasing social support and economic resources necessary for fulfilling the role identity of mother.

The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide Bewertungen

The author examines economic need and cultural expectations as causes of maternal infanticide. She discusses the definition of infanticide, the debate about whether maternal love and instinct are natural or social forces, the nature and trends of the occurrence of infanticide, and mental illness as a cause of infanticide; predispositional factors, including economic inequality and insufficient resources, family violence and intimate partner abuse, unwanted pregnancy and the reality of parenting, and social isolation and the lack of family support; how the mothering ideology creates a cultural inequality for women that leaves them with the task of childrearing; a framework for understanding the everyday mother-infant interactions that have the potential for lethal violence; and recommendations for prevention and social change. She does not address mental illness that precedes the conception of the infant, postpartum depression and psychosis, murder-suicide, infanticide by other perpetrators, or the death of an infant less than 24- hours-old. -- Annotation (c)2019 * (protoview.com) *

Über Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)

Martha Smithey is Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Texas Tech University, USA. Her research focuses on violence toward children and women, school shootings, and death certifier decision-making. Her work has been published in various journals including Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Deviant Behavior, Homicide Studies, Journal of Family Violence, and Women & Criminal Justice.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. An Introduction and Overview of Infanticide Chapter 2. Pre-dispositional Factors in Maternal Infanticide Chapter 3. Cultural Inequality and the Motherhood Ideology Chapter 4. A Crying Baby: The Situated Context of Infanticide Chapter 5. An Unhappy Baby and the Inability to Escape Chapter 6. Primary Prevention and Social Change
Appendix A. Intensive Interview Guide

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR013579240
9781787542082
1787542084
The Cultural and Economic Context of Maternal Infanticide: A Crying Baby and the Inability to Escape Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)
Martha Smithey (Texas Tech University, USA)
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Gebundene Ausgabe
Emerald Publishing Limited
2018-11-23
144
N/A
Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
Dies ist ein gebrauchtes Buch. Es wurde schon einmal gelesen und weist von der früheren Nutzung Gebrauchsspuren auf. Wir gehen davon aus, dass es im Großen und Ganzen in einem sehr guten Zustand ist. Sollten Sie jedoch nicht vollständig zufrieden sein, setzen Sie sich bitte mit uns in Verbindung.