“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

“I felt sad then, I feel free now”: a case for examining the constructive resistance of opted-out mothers

Purpose While past research has explored how opting-out enables mothers to break free from masculinist organizational cultures, less attention has been given to how they resist disciplinary power that constitutes and governs their subjectivities. This paper aims to add to the discussion of opting-o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yoong, Melissa, Mohamed, Nourhan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald 2023
Subjects:
opt-out stories; critical narrative analysis; constructive resistance; appraisal theory; intensive mothering; neoliberalism
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/76148/

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