Whitehead Krista
Mount Royal University.
Can Rev Sociol. 2016 Feb;53(1):94-122. doi: 10.1111/cars.12093.
Motherhood is one of the most enduring rites of passage to adult femininity for women. However, not all women have access to motherhood. In this paper, I explore the online infertility community wherein women blog to process their exclusion, expressing incredulity about the prospect of never having a biological child of their own. Women understand their infertility as an injustice, leading them to lay claim to motherhood. I argue that how women lay claim to motherhood changes our understanding of motherhood as a gendered norm. Motherhood is more than a pursuit of a gender identity; it is also a gendered entitlement. This research pushes analytic conceptualizations of motherhood forward, while also empirically enriching our knowledge about women's homosociality.
对女性而言，成为母亲是步入成年女性阶段最持久的仪式之一。然而，并非所有女性都能实现为人母的愿望。在本文中，我探讨了在线不孕不育群体，其中女性通过博客来梳理她们被排除在外的感受，表达对永远无法拥有自己亲生孩子这一前景的怀疑。女性将自己的不孕不育视为一种不公，这促使她们要求获得为人母的权利。我认为，女性争取为人母权利的方式改变了我们对作为一种性别规范的母亲身份的理解。母亲身份不仅仅是对一种性别身份的追求；它也是一种性别赋予的权利。这项研究推动了对母亲身份的分析概念化，同时也从经验上丰富了我们对女性同性社交的认识。
