“It feels a bit like drowning”: Expectations and Experiences of Motherhood during COVID-19

Friedman, May; Lichtfuss, Kori Kostka; Martignetti, Lucas; Gingras, Jacqui

doi:10.7202/1082015ar

Cited by 17 publications

(27 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Other analyses of responses to the pandemic in Western countries that distributed calls to participate through online platforms reported similarly skewed results (Craig and Churchill 2021 ; Friedman et al. 2021 ). The dynamics of making and volunteering in the USA could also help explain the sample demographics.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Scholars have started exploring the evolving interrelations between social inequalities and COVID‐19, with particular attention to inequitable labour arrangements (Craig and Churchill 2021 ; Friedman et al. 2021 ; Hong et al. 2021 ; Martindale et al.…”

Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Ambivalently Subverting And Perpe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As Table 1 illustrates, women, whites, and relatively well-educated individuals are overrepresented in the sample as compared to the population of the USA. Other analyses of responses to the pandemic in Western countries that distributed calls to participate through online platforms reported similarly skewed results (Craig and Churchill 2021; Friedman et al 2021). The dynamics of making and volunteering in the USA could also help explain the sample demographics.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the USA

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Do volunteers and civil society groups entrench or subvert neoliberalisation? We contribute to this debate by utilising data from 662 self‐administered questionnaires and 78 semi‐structured interviews with adults who made and distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) in response to a failed federal response to the COVID‐19 pandemic in the USA. The state’s failure to protect Americans angered PPE makers, even as they worked to address PPE shortages. Many purposefully assisted populations marginalised by neoliberal policies, taking pride in their ability to help. Although makers generally did not seek to reform the institutions that had failed them, our results indicate that civil society groups may challenge neoliberalisation by rallying communities to mitigate its worst impacts. Instead of being a passive conduit for neoliberalisation, PPE makers’ efforts in the USA were more accurately characterised by ambivalent engagements with neoliberalisation that sometimes bolstered collective efforts to challenge neoliberal governance and its associated inequities.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Ambivalently Subverting And Perpe...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 95%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the USA

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“… 2020 ; Friedman et al. 2021 ; Hennekam and Shymko 2020 ; Hjálmsdóttir and Bjarnadóttir 2021 ; Kisitu 2020 ; Regenold and Vindrola‐Padros 2021 ).…”

Section: Gendered Labor and The Covid‐19 Pandemic: A Summary Of Initi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 2021 ; Carolan 2021 ; Friedman et al. 2021 ; Hennekam and Shymko 2020 ; Hjálmsdóttir and Bjarnadóttir 2021 ; Leap et al. 2022 ; Minello et al.…”

Section: Recommendations For Bolstering Research Examining Gendered L...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reorganizations of Gendered Labor During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Leap

Stalp

Kelly

2022

Sociological Inquiry

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Across a range of countries, analysts have found that adaptations to the COVID‐19 pandemic often exacerbated previously existing labor inequalities between men and women in formal employment markets and households. This has been especially true for mothers with children in their households. Drawing on decades of sociological and feminist scholarship on labor, we suggest the following three strategies to strengthen ongoing research concerning pandemic‐induced reorganizations of gendered labor. First, ongoing research should expand considerations of gendered labor to account for more types of work and workers. Second, initial findings should be extended through the continued utilization of diverse methodologies to better account for the ambivalent experiences and meanings associated with emergent reorganizations of gendered work during the pandemic. Finally, ongoing research should pursue intersectional analyses of gendered labor that are sensitive to the complex dynamics of place and time. By expanding and strengthening considerations of gendered labor in these manners, ongoing analyses could generate more comprehensive, precise findings that better guide policy interventions meant to address the gendered inequities being sharpened by the pandemic. Foundational theoretical understandings of gendered labor and its associated inequalities could also be extended.

show abstract

Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India

Mendonca,

Redkar,

Ranganathan

2023

Women's Studies International Forum

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“It feels a bit like drowning”: Expectations and Experiences of Motherhood during COVID-19

Cited by 17 publications

References 5 publications

Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the USA

Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”: Anger, Pride, and Ambivalence in Civil Society Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in the USA

Reorganizations of Gendered Labor During the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Negotiating working motherhood and doing work from home at the intersection of class, gender and crisis in India

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About