Essays about: "Birthmothers"

Found 2 essays containing the word Birthmothers.

1. 1. South Korean Birthmothers Negotiate Everyday Violence and Child Loss Through Storytelling

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Jane Mejdahl; [2023]
   Keywords : South Korea; Transnational adoption; Storytelling; Birthmothers; Everyday violence; Motherhood; Gender; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Adoption scholars have dismantled the story of adoption as a humanitarian effort to save destitute children and framed adoption as a transnational issue underpinned by neo-colonial and patriarchal structures governing the relations between the West and ‘the rest’. This thesis builds on those insights and thus contributes to a growing body of literature within critical adoption studies. READ MORE

3. 2. Parenthood and Sickness Absence : A comparative analysis between opposite-sex and same-sex couples

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Hanna Tegmyr; [2015]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : Earlier studies have concluded that entering parenthood induces higher sickness absence among birthmothers as compared to their partners in opposite-sex couples. Increased household commitment, causing birthmothers to reduce their labor supply after entering parenthood is suggested to cause this increase of the female sickness absence in opposite-sex couples. READ MORE