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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.
The study focuses on the introduction of a health education curriculum in Cyprus’ public schools. The curriculum’s implementation is looked at as a project of modernization and is examined ethnographically in two primary schools in the Republic of Cyprus over a period of three years. Utilizing theories and methods from Science and Technology Studies and Global Ethnography, the study examines the entanglements of Science with Culture and of Tradition with Modernity as experts, teachers, parents and children encounter the new health education curriculum. Health education is compared to a project of biological citizenship and the curriculum is seen as an actant attempting to form a personal obligation towards health by promoting “common sense” knowledge and privileging “modern” individuals.
This article deals with the representation of motherdaughter relationships in novels by Herta Müller, Aglaja Veteranyi, Carmen Francesca Banciu and Gabriela Adamesteanu, all of them born in Romania. Herta Müller and Aglaja Veterani constantly wrote in German, while Carmen Francesca Banciu changed her language after emigrating to Germany and Gabriela Adameºteanu’s language has always been Romanian. Mother-daughter relationships are analysed in regard of female genealogy, but also considering their complexity and ambiguity. It is shown that representations of mother-daughter-relationships are depending rather on individual and psychological criteria than the author’s cultural or ethnic affiliation. Maybe a larger study, which could not be made in this article, could reveal more detailed results.