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Gender & Society, Vol. 10, No. 2, 199-211 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/089124396010002007

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NEGOTIATING INDEPENDENT MOTHERHOOD

Working-Class African American Women Talk about Marriage and Motherhood

LINDA M. BLUM

Tufs University

THERESA DEUSSEN

University of Michigan

The authors examine the experiences and ideals of African American working-class mothers through 20 intensive interviews. They focus on the women's negotiations with racialized norms of motherhood, represented in the assumptions that legal marriage and an exclusively bonded dyadic relationship with one's children are requisite to good mothering. The authors find, as did earlier phenomenological studies, that the mothers draw from distinct ideals of community-based independence to resist each of these assumptions and carve out alternative scripts based on nonmarital relationships with male partners and shared care of children.


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