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Mothering for Neoliberal Times. Mazahua Women, Poverty and the Cultural Politics of Development in Central Mexico

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Hryciuk R. E.

Polish Sociological Review

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2017

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vol. 200

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issue 4

523-544

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This paper presents the results of fieldwork concerning local development programmes addressed to poor Indian women and the social changes they effect in the marginalised Mazahua communities in central Mexico conducted from 2011 to 2015. By analysing the operation of a women’s cooperative I show how neoliberal ideology, which is at the core of development schemes, incorporates both the feminist ideas of gender equality and empowerment of women, and the Mexican tradition of politicising maternity in a crisis to establish new social hierarchies, subjectivities, and power relations, promote individualistic attitudes and a new, “market-oriented” morality, and reinforce political clientelism, leading to profound and usually detrimental (for women and local gender relations) changes in the functioning of native communities.

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TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS IN LIGHT OF EPIGENETICAL RESEARCH

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Varga K.

Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)

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2011

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vol. 66

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issue 3

507-532

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Transgenerational effects are well-known in clinical work. The effect of trauma may appear in those persons who themselves had not been directly involved in the original traumatic event, but their ancestors somehow passed it on to them. The modern epigenetic research provides biological explanation concerning the mechanism of transgenerational transmission. This means that different sets of genes can be silenced or activated depending on the epigenetical mechanisms, meanwhile the basic DNA sequence is the same. This way the epigenetical mechanisms allow the organism to react quickly to the environmental change, and these can be transmitted to the next generation if the conditions remain the same. This paper – following the short discussion of these mechanisms – raises some perinatal and psychotherapeutical implications of these phenomena.

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The Virgin Mary in the narratives of contemporary Catholic and Muslim mothers in Poland

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Krotofil J., Wójciak D., Mętel D.

Lud

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2023

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vol. 107

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issue 1

202-222

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W artykule przedstawiamy, w jaki sposób figura Maryi – matki Jezusa - funkcjonuje jako ważny element religii przeżywanej wśród współczesnych muzułmańskich i katolickich matek w Polsce. Opierając się na analizie wywiadów pogłębionych i danych obserwacyjnych dowodzimy, że Maryja uznawana jest za religijny ideał i wzór do naśladowania zarówno przez matki wyznające Islam, jak i matki katolickie. Śledzimy podobieństwa i różnice w refleksywnym zaangażowaniu wyznawczyń obu religii w idee, symbole i nakazy związane z Maryją oraz omawiamy, w jaki sposób religijne matki konstruują tę postać na nowo przypisując jej spersonalizowane znaczenia: przyjmując niektóre tradycyjne atrybuty Maryi, kwestionując lub odrzucając inne, a także tworząc nowe znaczenia mocno osadzone we własnych codziennych doświadczeniach macierzyńskich.

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In this paper, we demonstrate how the figure of the Virgin Mary functions as an important element of the lived religion of contemporary Catholic and Muslim mothers in Poland. Based on the analysis of in-depth interviews and observational data we argue that the figure of Mary is recognized as a religious ideal and a role model by mothers identifying with both religions. We trace similarities and differences between Catholic and Muslim mothers in their reflexive engagement with ideas, symbols, and prescriptions attached to Mary and discuss how they reinvent the figure and ascribe it with personalised meanings: embrace some of the traditional attributes of Mary, challenge, and contest others, and construct new meanings firmly embedded in their daily life mothering experiences.

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Mothering for Neoliberal Times. Mazahua Women, Poverty and the Cultural Politics of Development in Central Mexico

TRANSGENERATIONAL EFFECTS IN LIGHT OF EPIGENETICAL RESEARCH

The Virgin Mary in the narratives of contemporary Catholic and Muslim mothers in Poland