Kettle, J. (2016) ‘I Can’t Settle if It’s Not Tidy; I Blame That on My Mum’: Exploring Women’s Relational Household Work Narratives. Sociological Research Online, 21 (4). 6.
Abstract
Household work literature has highlighted the importance of mothers to their daughters' accounts of their household work practice, arguing that women can both aim to emulate and avoid particular practices in their own household work. This paper further explores this topic, drawing on a small-scale qualitative study to explore the self-narratives that two generations of mothers construct around the theme of household work. It looks particularly at how accounts of household work practices are incorporated into broader stories of growing up and taking responsibility, and the relevance of discourses of individualisation, and the notion of reflexive biographies to these explanations. This article also draws on theories of connectedness to show how self-narratives around the theme of household work reflect different forms of relationality, and to argue that a concept of relational selves is useful for making sense of these narratives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Sage Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Sociological Research Online. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Household Work; Identity; Motherhood; Narrative; Personal Life; Relationality |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield) > School of Clinical Dentistry (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 May 2017 13:36 |
Last Modified: | 30 Nov 2017 01:38 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.5153/sro.4109 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.5153/sro.4109 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116100 |