Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times
This study adopts a feminist critical approach to explore how parenting was understood during the COVID‐19 restrictive measures in Iceland. Iceland has been known as a front runner in gender equality, and women’s participation in the workforce is high. Data consists of 97 stories that were collected...
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crwiley:10.1111/gwao.12519 2024-09-15T18:13:22+00:00 Chaos ruined the children’s sleep, diet and behaviour: Gendered discourses on family life in pandemic times Auðardóttir, Auður Magndís Rúdólfsdóttir, Annadís G. 2020 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12519 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fgwao.12519 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gwao.12519 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/gwao.12519 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Gender, Work & Organization volume 28, issue S1, page 168-182 ISSN 0968-6673 1468-0432 journal-article 2020 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12519 2024-08-27T04:31:13Z This study adopts a feminist critical approach to explore how parenting was understood during the COVID‐19 restrictive measures in Iceland. Iceland has been known as a front runner in gender equality, and women’s participation in the workforce is high. Data consists of 97 stories that were collected during the peak of COVID‐19 in April 2020 using the story completion method. The stories were thematically analysed. Most of the participants were university‐educated women. The themes demonstrate the power of neoliberal discourses in framing parenting. Parenting during a pandemic, especially mothering, is constructed as an overwhelming project that requires detailed organization and management. There is also resistance to neoliberal governmentality through redefining successful parenthood. Furthermore, the gendered nature of domestic work is questioned, especially the traditional, inactive father who prioritizes his own needs only to fail comically in the domestic sphere. The study contributes to our understanding of gendered parenthood in neoliberal, pandemic times. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Gender, Work & Organization 28 S1 168 182 |
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This study adopts a feminist critical approach to explore how parenting was understood during the COVID‐19 restrictive measures in Iceland. Iceland has been known as a front runner in gender equality, and women’s participation in the workforce is high. Data consists of 97 stories that were collected during the peak of COVID‐19 in April 2020 using the story completion method. The stories were thematically analysed. Most of the participants were university‐educated women. The themes demonstrate the power of neoliberal discourses in framing parenting. Parenting during a pandemic, especially mothering, is constructed as an overwhelming project that requires detailed organization and management. There is also resistance to neoliberal governmentality through redefining successful parenthood. Furthermore, the gendered nature of domestic work is questioned, especially the traditional, inactive father who prioritizes his own needs only to fail comically in the domestic sphere. The study contributes to our understanding of gendered parenthood in neoliberal, pandemic times. |
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