TY  - JOUR
A1  - Potvin, Jacqueline Marie
T1  - Mobilizing motherhood: the use of maternal myths in popular development discourse
T2  - Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric
N2  - 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.
KW  - Development Discourse
KW  - Gender and Development
KW  - Motherhood
KW  - Altruism
KW  - Empowerment
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/40542
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-405423
UR  - http://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/article/view/57
SN  - 1835-6842
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SP  - 23
EP  - 43
PB  - The Global Justice Network
ER  -