The Creation of Natural Motherhood: A Call for a Rebirth of the Maternal

Collier, Janine

The Creation of Natural Motherhood: A Call for a Rebirth of the Maternal

dc.contributor.advisor	Worley, Jody
dc.contributor.author	Collier, Janine
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Lloyd-Jones, Brenda
dc.contributor.committeeMember	Myers-Morgan, Meg
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-18T16:53:35Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-18T16:53:35Z
dc.date.issued	2017-12
dc.date.manuscript	2017-12
dc.description.abstract	There is considerable intricacy associated to the maternal identity in the modern western culture. One of the most distressing issues with mothering is that it is subject to external influences that conceptualize an idealized mother identity which is likely to attenuate the experiences of mothering and impact the personal identity of a mother. In an integrated review of relevant scholarly literature this paper seeks to explore how the paradigm of the “natural” mother identity was created in relation to psychological constructs that characterize positive states as normative experiences while distinguishing negatives states as uncharacteristic of the maternal identity. The primary purpose of this analysis is to illuminate the need for the creation of a conceptual framework for a developmental process of the actual lived experience of mothers whose realities do not align with the idealized mother ideology.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/11244/53084
dc.language	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Maternal Identity, Attachment, Detachment, Idealized Mother Ideology, Maternal Lived Experience, Ambivalence, Maternal Attachment/Detachment Developmental Process	en_US
dc.thesis.degree	Master of Human Relations	en_US
dc.title	The Creation of Natural Motherhood: A Call for a Rebirth of the Maternal	en_US
ou.group	College of Arts and Sciences::Department of Human Relations	en_US