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• Mothers’ self-representations and representations of childhood on social media 

  Kallioharju, Minna; Wilska, Terhi-Anna; Vänskä, Annamari (Emerald, 2023)

  Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine mothers’ social media accounts that focus on children’s fashion. The authors probed children’s fashion photo practices as representations of the mothers’ extended self and ...

• Displaying morally responsible motherhood : lone mothers accounting for work during non-standard hours 

  Moilanen, Sanna; May, Vanessa; Sevón, Eija; Murtorinne-Lahtinen, Minna; Laakso,Marja-Leena (Policy Press, 2020)

  This study examined how lone mothers rationalise their work during non-standard hours (e.g., evenings and weekends), which they perceive as problematic in terms of child wellbeing, and thereby as violating the culturally ...

• ‘Celebrating diverse motherhood’ : Physically disabled women’s counter-narratives to their stigmatised identity as mothers 

  Lappeteläinen, Anita; Sevón, Eija; Vehkakoski, Tanja (Policy Press, 2018)

  This study examined how disabled women negotiated their stigmatised identity as mothers by presenting counter-narratives to the culturally dominant narrative of disabled motherhood. Eleven Finnish physically disabled mothers ...

• “I feel many contradictory emotions” : Finnish mothers' discursive struggles with motherhood 

  Raudasoja, Mirjam; Sorkkila, Matilda; Laitila, Aarno; Aunola, Kaisa (Wiley, 2022)

  Objective The aim of the study was to facilitate the understanding and interpretation of multiple aspects of working with mothers by examining Finnish mothers' mothering discourses and the interplay among these ...

• ‘To Make a People Out of a Mere Population’ : Sovereignty and Governmentality in Hegemonic Russian Cultural Policy 

  Romashko, Tatiana (Brill, 2022)

  The paper claims that contemporary Russian cultural policy has been determined by political transformations associated with the political project to establish sovereignty that has organized Putin’s regime since 2012. The ...