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    Hapless, helpless, hopeless: an analysis of stepmothers' talk about their (male) partners

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    Authors
    Roper, Sandra
    Capdevila, Rose
    Affiliation
    University of Bedfordshire
    Open University
    Issue Date
    2020-03-31
    Subjects
    stepmothers
    
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    Abstract
    The identity of stepmother is, in many ways, a troubled one – constructed as “other” and often associated with notions of “wickedness” in literature and everyday talk. This paper reports findings from a study on the difficulties faced by stepmothers and how they use talk about their (male) partners, often constructing men as hapless, helpless or hopeless, to repair their “troubled” identities. The data were collected from a web forum for stepmothers based in the UK and 13 semi-structured face-to-face interviews with stepmothers. The analysis took a synthetic narrative-discursive methodological approach, underpinned by feminist theory with particular attention to the discourses that were drawn on by participants and the constraints that these imposed. This paper presents these findings in relation to three constructions of their partners through which repair work was attempted: men as in need of rescue; men as flawed fathers; and men as damaged. The paper concludes with some suggestions for supporting stepmothers by challenging dominant narratives around families in talk, in the media and in government and institutional policies.
    Citation
    Roper S, Capdevila R (2020) 'Hapless, helpless, hopeless: an analysis of stepmothers' talk about their (male) partners', Feminism and Psychology, 30 (2), pp.248-266.
    Publisher
    SAGE
    Journal
    Feminism and Psychology
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/624056
    DOI
    10.1177/0959353519900212
    Additional Links
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353519900212
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    0959-3535
    EISSN
    1461-7161
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1177/0959353519900212
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