Motherhood as a protean career for educated mothers in Australia
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May Isaac Thesis
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This thesis challenges our ideas of what motherhood and ‘career’ means. Investigating contemporary motherhood practice, it reveals how for many educated Australian mothers, regardless of paid work engagement, motherhood is a skilled and meaningful ‘job’ and a ‘career’ in itself. The study contributes the notion of motherhood as a protean career to career theory by demonstrating how educated mothers experience motherhood over six stages – Starting Strong, Shifting Ground, Digging Deep, Aiming High, Learning Lots and Taking Stock. Motherhood as a protean career can fundamentally reshape how organisations, society and mothers themselves perceive and value the work and experience of motherhood.
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| ID Code: | 212505 |
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| Item Type: | QUT Thesis (PhD) |
| Supervisor: | Bradley, Lisa & Williams, Jannine |
| Keywords: | contemporary motherhood, motherhood and career, protean career, neoliberal motherhood, unpaid work, unpaid care work, professionalised motherhood, neoliberal motherhood, neoliberalism, intensive motherhood |
| DOI: | 10.5204/thesis.eprints.212505 |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Faculty of Business & Law Current > Schools > School of Management |
| Institution: | Queensland University of Technology |
| Deposited On: | 24 Aug 2021 23:46 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2021 23:46 |
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