Mapping Communities of Mothering: Where Race, Class, Gender, and Space Intersect

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This manuscript explores the unique construction of community that young, low-income, women create, based on embodied internal and external spaces they occupy as lone mothers. Issues related to diverse women’s representation, voice, power, within these socially constructed communities are examined. Attention is paid how young low-income mothers experience actively create their own supportive both geographic social boundaries, in active resistance dominant oppressive assumptions. To explore concepts in-depth, results presented from an ethnographic study examined participation eleven racially single living a small U.S. Midwestern city. Findings focus multiple ways lives idea through prism motherhood, race, class, geographic/physical space. The use qualitative participatory mapping techniques also emphasized examine physically boundaries. Implications discussed for workers can best advocate justice by using intersectional lens locate partner with organic mothering created.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Progressive Human Services

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['1042-8232', '1540-7616']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2023.2173473