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“Is This What Motherhood is All About?”: Weaving Experiences and Discourse through Transition to First-Time Motherhood

Miller, Tina·2007·Gender & Society

DOI 10.1177/0891243207300561

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This article focuses on transition to first-time motherhood and explores the experiences of a group of women as they anticipate, give birth, and engage in early mothering. It illuminates how these women draw on, weave together, and challenge dominant strands of discourse that circumscribe their journeys into motherhood. Using qualitative longitudinal data, prenatal and postnatal episodes of transition are explored. The analysis and juxtaposing of these data reveal the different ways women anticipate and gradually make sense of becoming mothers. While there is a disjuncture between expectations and experiences for these new mothers, this article draws attention to the different ways women discursively position themselves through transition. It reveals how birth experiences can act as a discursive turning point and underscores the obduracy of some strands of dominant discourse. These findings contribute to a subtler and more nuanced understanding of the dynamic interplay between personal experience and gendered discourses.

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Authors: Miller, T.
Affiliations: Oxford Brookes University (GB)
Corresponding author: Miller, Tina
ORCID: Miller, Tina
Venue: Gender & Society
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2007-06
Volume: 21
Issue: 3
Pages: 337-358
ISSN: 0891-2432 (ISSN-L)
1552-3977
DOI: 10.1177/0891243207300561
OpenAlex: W2119437676
Cited by: 244
References: 37
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 9 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 19 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 16
FWCI: 15.72
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Gender & Society (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes
Keywords: first-time motherhood, transition to motherhood, childbirth experience, prenatal experience, postnatal experience, gender discourse, maternal identity, motherhood discourse

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“Is This What Motherhood is All About?”: Weaving Experiences and Discourse through Transition to First-Time Motherhood

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