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  title info:
    title: Motherhood in a time of transition
  name:
    name part: Claycomb, Nancy Mawn.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 178 leaves ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This study explores how the shift from a rural, hacienda-based economy to an urban, market-based one has affected motherhood in San Vicente, a small Ecuadorian barrio. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study illustrates the varying influences of structure, culture, chance and choice in the lives of barrio mothers. First, I show that since the downfall of the haciendas in San Vicente, the costs of entering the mother role have increased. Given these new costs, barrio women have developed more negative feelings about entering motherhood, but often do little to prevent that entrance. Next, I demonstrate that San Vicente's urban shift helped to create more rigid categories for male and female roles, designating men more exclusively to the public sphere of work and women to the private sphere of the home. Although barrio mothers assume the reproductive duties in the home, they often must, because of economic necessity, become income producers as well. To meet the often competing demands of production and reproduction, barrio mothers have created a complex private sphere where they juggle both. Finally, I show that since the urban shift, children have become more central to family life in San Vicente and that mothers have begun to dedicate more time and resources to readying their children for entrance into the adult world. I also explain, however, that these expenditures do not always pay off and that while many mothers strive to gain upward mobility for their children, few actually achieve it.
  note: by Nancy Mawn Claycomb.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Sociology".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2000.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 135-141).
  subject:
    topic: Major sociology
  identifier: 99-94224 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 011105
    record change date: 20190325102856.0
    record identifier: in00001637245