8 - Searching for Balance but Finding Guilt A Story of Academic Mothers in South Africa
Corresponding Author(s) : Venitha Pillay
Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique,
Vol. 10 No 2 (2012): Revue de l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique
Résumé
Ce papier s’appuie sur les données d’une vaste étude ethnographique qui a suivi la vie de trois nouvelles mamans universitaires. Dans cet article, je tente de répondre à la question qui m’a été posée à plusieurs reprises, sous différentes de formes, au cours des présentations du livre : « comment puis- jeêtreuniversitaireetmère,sansperdrelatête? ».Deuxquestionsthématiques liées découlent des données : a) la recherche de l’équilibre entre le travail universitaire et la maternité est insaisissable ; et b) les mères universitaires sont déchirées par la culpabilité. En utilisant l’idée de Grosz selon laquelle les féministes doivent constamment critiquer et construire, je prends le cas des mères universitaires qui cherchent à « lâcher prise », afin d’ « adopter » plus de moyens émancipateurs pour être universitaire et mère. Je démontre aussi que l’idée de Grosz devrait être élargie pour inclure les moyens de détruire les notions qui bloquent la signification d’être universitaire et mère.
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- Cloete, N. and Bunting, I., 2000, Higher Education Transformation: Assessing Performance in South Africa, Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET).
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- Grosz, E., 1990, ‘Contemporary Theories of Power and Subjectivity’, in Gunew, S., ed., Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct, (pp.59-120), London and New York: Routledge.
- Grossman, H. Y. and Chester, N. L., 1990, The Experience and Meaning of Work in Women’s Lives, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
- Lather, P., 2007, Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science, USA: State University of New York Press.
- Lupton, D., 2000, ‘“A Love/Hate Relationship”: The Ideals and Experiences of First- time Mothers’, Journal of Sociology, 36, 50-63.
- McCorkel, J.A. and Myers, K., 2003, ‘What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the Field’,
- McMahon, M., 1995, Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-transformation in Women’s Lives, New York: The Guilford Press.
- Moe, K.S., 2003, ‘Setting the Stage: An Introduction and Overview’, in Moe, K.S, ed., Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender, (pp. 3-8), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
- Oakley, A., 1986, From Here to Maternity: Becoming a Mother, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Pillay, V., 2007, Academic Mothers, UK: Trentham Bovics.
- Ribbens, J., 1994, Mothers and their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Child- rearing, London: Sage Publications.
- Rich, A., 1995, Of Women Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
- Ruddick, S., 1995, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Boston: Beacon Press.
- Sanders, J., 2009, ‘In Dreams Begin Possibilities - or Anybody Have Time for Change’, in Evans and Grant, eds., Mama Phd, pp. 247- 250, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
- Snitow, A., 1992, ‘Feminism and Motherhood: An American Reading’, Feminist Review, 40, 32-52. Wilson, K.B. and Cox, E.M., 2011, ‘No Kids Allowed: Transforming Community Colleges to Support Mothering’, NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education, 4(2), 218-241.
- Wu, Y., 1997, ‘Thinking Feminist Thought’, Surface, VII (115), 4-9.
- Young, D.S. and Wright, E.M., 2001,’ Mothers Making Tenure’, Journal of Social ation, 37(3), 555-568.
Les références
Bassett, R.H., 2005, ‘The Life I didn’t Know I Wanted’, in Bassett, R.H., ed.,ng and Professing: Balancing Family Work with an Academic Career, (pp.217- 224), Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press.
Cloete, N. and Bunting, I., 2000, Higher Education Transformation: Assessing Performance in South Africa, Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET).
Cooey, P., 1999, ‘“Ordinary Mother” as Oxymoron: the Collusion of Theory, Theory and Politics in the Undermining of Mothers’, in Hanigsberg, J. and Ruddick, S., eds., Mother Troubles: Rethinking Contemporary Maternal Dilemmas, (pp. 229-249), Boston: Beacon Press.
Edwards, R., 1993, Mature Women Students: Separating or Connecting Family and Education, London: Taylor and Francis.
Evans, E. and Grant, C., eds., 2009, Mama Phd: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Foucault, M., 1997, Society Must be Defended: Lectures at the College de France 1975-76, Translated by David Macey. New York: Picador.
Grosz, E., 1990, ‘Contemporary Theories of Power and Subjectivity’, in Gunew, S., ed., Feminist Knowledge: Critique and Construct, (pp.59-120), London and New York: Routledge.
Grossman, H. Y. and Chester, N. L., 1990, The Experience and Meaning of Work in Women’s Lives, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Lather, P., 2007, Getting Lost: Feminist Efforts Toward a Double(d) Science, USA: State University of New York Press.
Lupton, D., 2000, ‘“A Love/Hate Relationship”: The Ideals and Experiences of First- time Mothers’, Journal of Sociology, 36, 50-63.
McCorkel, J.A. and Myers, K., 2003, ‘What Difference Does Difference Make? Position and Privilege in the Field’,
McMahon, M., 1995, Engendering Motherhood: Identity and Self-transformation in Women’s Lives, New York: The Guilford Press.
Moe, K.S., 2003, ‘Setting the Stage: An Introduction and Overview’, in Moe, K.S, ed., Women, Family, and Work: Writings on the Economics of Gender, (pp. 3-8), Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Oakley, A., 1986, From Here to Maternity: Becoming a Mother, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Pillay, V., 2007, Academic Mothers, UK: Trentham Bovics.
Ribbens, J., 1994, Mothers and their Children: A Feminist Sociology of Child- rearing, London: Sage Publications.
Rich, A., 1995, Of Women Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
Ruddick, S., 1995, Maternal Thinking: Toward a Politics of Peace, Boston: Beacon Press.
Sanders, J., 2009, ‘In Dreams Begin Possibilities - or Anybody Have Time for Change’, in Evans and Grant, eds., Mama Phd, pp. 247- 250, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press.
Snitow, A., 1992, ‘Feminism and Motherhood: An American Reading’, Feminist Review, 40, 32-52. Wilson, K.B. and Cox, E.M., 2011, ‘No Kids Allowed: Transforming Community Colleges to Support Mothering’, NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education, 4(2), 218-241.
Wu, Y., 1997, ‘Thinking Feminist Thought’, Surface, VII (115), 4-9.
Young, D.S. and Wright, E.M., 2001,’ Mothers Making Tenure’, Journal of Social ation, 37(3), 555-568.