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Ann Mari Sellerberg

Ann Mari Sellerberg

Professor emerita

Ann Mari Sellerberg

The life of young working class mothers in Sweden

Author

  • Ann-Mari Sellerberg

Summary, in English

Which are the features marking modern motherhood? Our attempts to answer this are based on an investigation among young working-class mothers. Our focus is norms pertaining to the relation between mother and child. Some of these seem distinctly subcultural working-class norms, while others are supposed to be more general. However, norms here presented are held to be the marks of young families, in contrast to older ones. According to these norms children should be in the focus of spending, of demands and of mothers' attention, briefly, in the "psychological center" of mothers. In spite of--or rather because of--this, mothers make conscious attempts to maintain a boundary against their children's becoming the be-all and end-all of their mothers' lives. To working-class mothers this consists primarily infixing a boundary in a physical sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Department/s

  • Sociology

Publishing year

1975

Language

English

Pages

416-421

Publication/Series

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volume

37

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Topic

  • Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology)

Keywords

  • maternal love
  • working class women
  • motherhood
  • parenthood
  • mother-child relationship

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-2445