Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It: A Social Psychological Study of a Working Mother’s Dilemma | ||
| مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة | ||
| Volume 73, Issue 73, August 2023 | ||
| Document Type: العلوم الانسانیة الأدبیة واللغات | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/artman.2023.184002.1988 | ||
| Author | ||
| رغده عادل الامام حسب الله* | ||
| جامعة المنصورة/الدقهلية/ مصر | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Allison Pearson gives voice to the daily struggle of a working mother through the character of Kate Reddy, a fund manager and a mother of two. Throughout the novel, Kate tries to set balance between her social roles as a mother and a career woman. Although her life style necessitates flexibility in performing her maternity role, she still conforms to the ideology of intensive mothering, which dictates that a mother is the only responsible person for the psychological and physical well-being of her children. The beliefs begot by the ideology of “intensive mothering” get internalized and become a part of who a mother is. Such beliefs can be seen as an integral part of social identity that is accumulated by years of living in a certain society governed by intensive mothering ideology. Torn between the house and the workplace, she falls victim to chronic stress. The research investigates the effect of intensive-mothering ideology on the mental health of working mothers represented by Pearson’s Kate Reddy | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Intensive mothering; ideology; stereotypes; identity; self-concept | ||
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