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Choice Mums and Children’s Education. Does Feminism Matter? A Qualitative Study

Bravo-Moreno, A; (2019) Choice Mums and Children’s Education. Does Feminism Matter? A Qualitative Study. The Qualitative Report , 24 (4) pp. 921-947. Green open access

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyse and compare the experiences of self-labelled feminist and non-feminist women who have consciously chosen to be single mothers. This article contributes to the literature by providing a Spanish context to the experiences of single mothers by choice. Scant research currently exists on the specific characteristics of this type of family and on the influence of gender composition. Furthermore, no research has been conducted on the comparison between feminist and non-feminist single mothers by choice and how their different perspectives may affect their children’s education. The principal argument of this paper is based on four central themes developed from the data: a) The women participating in this study have opted to be single mothers by choice because they have not found a suitable partner; b) Being single mothers by choice has, for all of them, entailed a transgressive and empowering decision with regard to the traditional nuclear family; c) The feminist participants anchor their decision to be a single-mother family by choice in their feminism, which is also reflected in the critical pedagogy that they practise in their children´s education and in the choice of secular schooling; and d) For the non-feminist participants, the empowering and emancipatory aspect of being a single mother by choice, their educational level, professional success and economic independence do not have an impact on their patriarchal beliefs, and prefer Catholic schools for their children.

Type: Article
Title: Choice Mums and Children’s Education. Does Feminism Matter? A Qualitative Study
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol24/iss4/20
Language: English
Additional information: © The Qualitative Report 2019. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
Keywords: Single-Mothers-By-Choice, Children´s Education, (Non) Feminism, Spain, Ethnography
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10120286
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