Mobilizing motherhood: the use of maternal myths in popular development discourse
- In this paper, I examine how maternal myths are deployed in popular development literature. Using critical discourse analysis and working within a feminist postcolonial framework I analyse five texts produced by development organizations for popular consumption. I identify how maternal myths are constructed in each text and conduct a contextual analysis of four myths to identify their ideological significance within the development sector. I conclude that that in their construction of maternal myths, these texts, while intended to elicit support for gender and development interventions, reinforce exploitative gender roles and relations and limit women’s experiences of development.
| Author: | Jacqueline Marie Potvin |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-405423 |
| URL: | http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/article/view/57 |
| ISSN: | 1835-6842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric |
| Publisher: | The Global Justice Network |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2015 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2016/07/01 |
| Tag: | Altruism; Development Discourse; Empowerment; Gender and Development; Motherhood |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 23 |
| Last Page: | 43 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 399860959 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
