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Mompreneurs: Economics, Parenting and Identity

hal.structure.identifierInstitut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales [IRISSO]
dc.contributor.authorLandour, Julie
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-15T16:00:08Z
dc.date.available2022-12-15T16:00:08Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn0224-4365
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.psl.eu/handle/123456789/23461
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjectindependent worken
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectfamilyen
dc.subjectidentityen
dc.subjectlife courseen
dc.subject.ddc305en
dc.titleMompreneurs: Economics, Parenting and Identityen
dc.typeArticle accepté pour publication ou publié
dc.description.abstractenMompreneurs is a movement that appeared in France towards the end of the 2000s. Its members define themselves as women who create a business when their baby is born, abandoning paid employment in favour of an independence supposed to insure a better work and family balance. The movement may seem insignificant when only the members of its “certified” networks are counted, but it involves deep and transversal processes of individuation, as well as the ongoing public celebration of individual economic initiatives and the stress put on parenting, particularly among the middle and upper classes. Based on three years of research carried out in one of the French Mompreneurs collectives, this article summons up these women’s words, attempting to grasp – given the objective conditions of the independent professional activity they have chosen to practice – what they expected by giving up their salaried employment. After sketching the identity of an entrepreneurial adventure in the guise of “perfect mother”, we will see how the family and its eventual fluctuations affect the life-courses of initially privileged women, revealing the part of fragility hidden beneath that promised, exalting, global enterprise of self.en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlnameTravail et emploi
dc.relation.isversionofjnlvol2020en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlissueHors-sérieen
dc.relation.isversionofjnldate2020
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpages121-142en
dc.relation.isversionofdoi10.4000/travailemploi.10041en
dc.identifier.urlsitehttps://journals.openedition.org/travailemploi/10041en
dc.relation.isversionofjnlpublisherLa Documentation françaiseen
dc.subject.ddclabelStructure de la sociétéen
dc.relation.forthcomingnonen
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dc.description.readershiprechercheen
dc.description.audienceNationalen
dc.relation.Isversionofjnlpeerreviewedouien
dc.date.updated2022-12-15T15:31:35Z
hal.identifierhal-03902016
hal.version1
hal.date.transferred2022-12-15T16:00:10Z
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