Cultural Dynamics of Women's Lives.

Intro -- Contents -- General Introduction -- Part I: Cultural Construction of Gender: Symbolic Ambivalences -- Editorial Introduction -- 1. Peripheral Lives, Central Meaning: Women and Their Place in Indian Society -- 2. Traditional and Contemporary Mothering in Coexistent Worlds: Theories, Practices, and Cultural Realities -- 3. People in Transitions in Worlds in Transition: Ambivalence in the Transition to Womanhood During World War II -- 4. "Moving Portraits" of Femininity: A Study of the Bilheiras of Piauí -- 5. Beyond "Women," "Mothers," and "Me": Imagination, Poetics, and Why Surpassing Social Norms Means Surpassing the Self -- 6. Striving Toward a Normative Identity: The Social Production of the Meaning of Assisted Reproductive Technology in Ireland -- Part II: Weavers of Meanings Through Women's Cultural Realities -- Editorial Introduction -- 7. Indigenous Women: Gender, Identity, and Culture in Transition -- 8. Woman's Self Construction and Sociocultural Mediation -- 9. Mothers Dealing with Child Abuse: Dynamics of Psychological Processing -- 10. Play and Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Brazilian Contexts -- 11. Experiences of a Black Female Professor Against Racism -- 12. Coping with Sexual Violence: Strategies Used by Mothers of Abused Girls -- Part III: Living Through Life Transitions: Contexts of Motherhood -- Editorial Introduction -- 13. Becoming Mother -- 14. Adaptation at the Postnatal Period and the Valuation of Parental Roles -- 15. Woman the Caregiver: Ways of Sharing Childcare in Two Contemporary Brazilian Contexts -- 16. Meaningful Lives of Women over Three Generations: A Glimpse into Afro-Brazilian Experience -- 17. Childbirth and Pain in the Context of Brazilian Women in Different Socioeconomic Conditions -- 18. Meanings Through the Transition to Motherhood: Women Before and After Childbirth.

Part IV: Becoming the Mother: Dialogs within Selves -- Editorial Introduction -- 19. Negotiating Motherhood: Practices and Discourses -- 20. Teenage Motherhood as a Family Experience: Ambivalences Between Individual and Shared Worlds -- 21. Ambivalences in the Transition to Motherhood: The Arrival of an Intersexual Baby -- 22. Being a Mother and an Undergraduate Student: The Dialogical Process of Becoming a Mother in the Academic Context -- 23. Having Recurrent Gestational Losses: Persistence in Living -- Part V: The Deep Humanity of Knowledge: Realities of Research Encounters -- Editorial Introduction -- 24. Reflexivity and Subjectivity: Making Race, Class, and Gender Visible -- 25. Memories, Field Notes, Poetics: The Underside of a Research -- 26. Does the World Move After Women Talk? Meaning-Making Processes Around Pregnancy and Childbirth from a Mother&amp -- #8211 -- Daughter Conversational Setting -- 27. Partnerships in Research -- Appendix: Photo Essay: Images from Novos Alagados: The beauty of the woman -- About the Authors.

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