MOTHERHOOD AS A SOCIOCULTURAL CONCEPT (TYPOLOGY, TRANSFORMATION, PROSPECTS)
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304.444
DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-46-126-130
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Information about authors: Klimenko Natalya Sergeevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: Favour85@mail.ru Karelina Natalya Andreevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: Nataly_karelina@mail.ru
Annotation: The article analyses the cultural and social content of the “motherhood concept.” The relevance is primarily due to depreciation of maternity as a universal human value as well as most others general social and cultural meanings: traditions, love, marriage, family, etc. The authors set the goal to pull away from the standard perception of motherhood as unchanging and inevitable feminine social and cultural practices. Reproductive culture has never been a sphere of exclusively private life and has always experienced the influence of society, its status, evolutions and transformations. Thus, being a product of social culture, the motherhood cannot be a homogeneous and fixed category. The authors proposed a typology of the modern motherhood (from the most traditional to the most modernized interpretations) that suggests women’s different attitude to their own maternal experience, as well as the actualization of “reproductive choice problem.” In the situation of “reproductive choice,” the universal scheme of feminine reproductive culture -- “daughter-mother-grandmother” -- ceases to be the only possible and inevitable scenario of a woman’s life. According to the authors’ position, the prospects for studying the motherhood as a social and cultural concept are mostly determined by the acceptance or rejection of “reproductive choice idea” both at the level of feminine self-consciousness and at the level of social consciousness of a particular society. The refusal to understand motherhood as a natural manifestation of biological instinct in favor of studying the social and cultural components of currently relevant feminine reproductive practices is much more responsive to the social needs and to the demands of modern humanitarian science.
Keywords: reproductive choice, reproductive feminine scenario, maternal instinct, “yazhemat,” “nemat,” “childfree,” “childhate.”
DOI: 10.31773/2078-1768-2019-46-126-130
Article ID in the RSCI:
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Information about authors: Klimenko Natalya Sergeevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: Favour85@mail.ru Karelina Natalya Andreevna, Sr Instructor, Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University (Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation). E-mail: Nataly_karelina@mail.ru
Annotation: The article analyses the cultural and social content of the “motherhood concept.” The relevance is primarily due to depreciation of maternity as a universal human value as well as most others general social and cultural meanings: traditions, love, marriage, family, etc. The authors set the goal to pull away from the standard perception of motherhood as unchanging and inevitable feminine social and cultural practices. Reproductive culture has never been a sphere of exclusively private life and has always experienced the influence of society, its status, evolutions and transformations. Thus, being a product of social culture, the motherhood cannot be a homogeneous and fixed category. The authors proposed a typology of the modern motherhood (from the most traditional to the most modernized interpretations) that suggests women’s different attitude to their own maternal experience, as well as the actualization of “reproductive choice problem.” In the situation of “reproductive choice,” the universal scheme of feminine reproductive culture -- “daughter-mother-grandmother” -- ceases to be the only possible and inevitable scenario of a woman’s life. According to the authors’ position, the prospects for studying the motherhood as a social and cultural concept are mostly determined by the acceptance or rejection of “reproductive choice idea” both at the level of feminine self-consciousness and at the level of social consciousness of a particular society. The refusal to understand motherhood as a natural manifestation of biological instinct in favor of studying the social and cultural components of currently relevant feminine reproductive practices is much more responsive to the social needs and to the demands of modern humanitarian science.
Keywords: reproductive choice, reproductive feminine scenario, maternal instinct, “yazhemat,” “nemat,” “childfree,” “childhate.”
