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Thanks to everyone who has joined My Mommy is! Welcome to the site of the Mothering Contexts Study please check out the survey!

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE POST FOR MAY 1ST 2009

please note: May is a busy conference month and I have not been/will not be able to post as regularly. Get ready for lots of posting in June and please use the comment feature to build this community. Thanks for reading!

So, I took my dog for a run today...

K can attest that Riel didn't so much make it to our run today. I told her once to "come," twice, three times and NOTHING! Nothing but crazy, golden retriever antics! So, yes I followed through. She spent our run back at the house. Sorry, Riel.

Please, if you haven't done so already - check out the Mothering Contexts Study (no questions about pets, though).

Mother's Day 2009

Thanks to R and K for a great Mother's Day 5 km (~3 mile) run this morning. What a beautiful day to celebrate being a mom! Thanks to DOAD and sweet boys for supporting me in my running journey.

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Feedback Already

Thanks very much to the moms who have completed the Mothering Contexts Study. The response has been overwhelming already! I appreciate your support and your positive feedback about the survey. I am very much interested in hearing the stories of all mothers from all kinds of situations and so energized that so many women are keen to share their experiences with me! Please use the open ended section at the end to provide your own take on mothering in your own words. Thanks so very much for sharing your stories.

Keep checking back as I will share the results here - I will try my best to keep this blog updated.

Please use the blog comments to provide me some feedback on the process of doing the survey if you'd like.

Pre-Mother's Day Launch!

I launched my Mothering Contexts Study officially today! I am so looking forward to hearing about the mothering experiences of women from all over... the crazy things that come out of our mouths that we share with friends later and laugh, but at the time cringe... the gems we come up with when grocery shopping to discipline our kids... to the trials and tribulations of trying to do it all - whatever that means to each of us. I am interested in hearing all about it!

Mothering Contexts Study

Welcome! Thanks for checking out my blog and the mothering contexts study. I will have the on-line survey up and running this weekend for MOTHER'S DAY (a little past my May 4th 2009 initial launch date!).

Please try again to access the survey. For now, please feel free to navigate through my blog, the old posts and find out a little more about me and my work.

The study is intended to hear mothers' voices and provide narratives of women's lives as mothers. I will pay particular attention to the ideas, understandings and discourses they draw on to explain their mothering, the behaviours and practices they engage in with their children and outside of their children's lives, and the wider societal and cultural context of mothering. It is my hope that this research would be appealing to all mothers, especially those of us who are questioning how our mothering role is and is not related to other aspects of our multi-dimensional lives.

Research Objective
My objective is to examine the experience of mothering in the various contexts of women’s lives. Stated different, this research explores the situated nature of mothering and the ways in which mothering contexts influence maternal identities and maternal practices. The following questions will guide my research: What does motherhood look like in North America today? What are women’s experiences of mothering? What interactions characterize motherhood? What unique identities do mothers develop? What "cultural scripts" and wider understandings do women use to make sense of their mothering practices? How are mother(ing) experiences connected to the particular context (structural/relational) that women find themselves; that is, mothers living poverty, immigrant mothers, stay-at-home mothers, non-custodial mothers, lesbian mothers, young mothers, mothers with careers etc. and the list goes on!

What are the differences in our experience of motherhood?
What are the similarities in our experiences of motherhood?

WHAT CONNECTS US AS MOTHERS?

If you are interested in taking part in an in-person interview, please contact me through the comment function on this post and we can discuss a mutually agreeable plan.

Thanks very much for your assistance, support and involvement.

Sincerely,
Dr. Mama (aka Joanne)