Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Over the past decades, China's one-child policy and broader modernization project has paved the way for scientific approaches to childcare. While the emphasis on expert-led childcare promotes new practices of mothering, it also acts as a differential between those who are able to carry out the...

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Autor principal:	Michala Hvidt Breengaard
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	DA EN NB SV
Publicado:	The Royal Danish Library 2015
Materias:	Social Sciences H
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:41f85c567cdd481cbcc7425c1d6156f82021-12-01T00:06:29ZPractices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing10.7146/kkf.v24i1.285122245-6937https://doaj.org/article/41f85c567cdd481cbcc7425c1d6156f82015-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/28512https://doaj.org/toc/2245-6937 Over the past decades, China's one-child policy and broader modernization project has paved the way for scientific approaches to childcare. While the emphasis on expert-led childcare promotes new practices of mothering, it also acts as a differential between those who are able to carry out these practices and those who are not. Taking its point of departure in the concept of intersectionality and in post-structural theories of subjectification, this article explores how mothers and child professionals in contemporary Beijing draw boundaries between those considered competent and incompetent in childcare. By analysing their stories on infant feeding, the article finds that older generations and rural people are demarcated as lacking new knowledge and thereby positioned as incompetent, while well-educated mothers are positioned as highly competent. However, the article also suggests that these positions are not stable but contain potentials for transformation. Michala Hvidt BreengaardThe Royal Danish LibraryarticleSocial SciencesHDAENNBSVKvinder, Køn & Forskning, Vol 24, Iss 1 (2015)
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description	Over the past decades, China's one-child policy and broader modernization project has paved the way for scientific approaches to childcare. While the emphasis on expert-led childcare promotes new practices of mothering, it also acts as a differential between those who are able to carry out these practices and those who are not. Taking its point of departure in the concept of intersectionality and in post-structural theories of subjectification, this article explores how mothers and child professionals in contemporary Beijing draw boundaries between those considered competent and incompetent in childcare. By analysing their stories on infant feeding, the article finds that older generations and rural people are demarcated as lacking new knowledge and thereby positioned as incompetent, while well-educated mothers are positioned as highly competent. However, the article also suggests that these positions are not stable but contain potentials for transformation.
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Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

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