Mothers with Lower-Incomes and Community Programming: Illuminating Narratives of Access and Experience in Kitchener

dc.contributor.advisorBerbary, Lisbeth
dc.contributor.authorMasson, Kristin
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-07T16:36:22Z
dc.date.available2016-06-07T16:36:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-06-07
dc.date.submitted2016-05-31
dc.description.abstractWhile motherhood is a wonderful experience full of love and joy, it continues to involve tremendous amounts of change in all areas of a new mother’s life. While leisure activities, such as the ones offered at community supported programs, may help to improve mothers’ experiences, many mothers still do not participate. Furthermore, literature was needed to better illuminate the complexities of mothers’ experiences of gaining awareness and access to community supported programming, specifically recognizing the intersectionality of class and gender. Thus, this socialist feminist narrative inquiry sought to create opportunities for social change by illuminating the gendered and classed experiences of mothers while gaining awareness, access, and experiencing community supported programming. Through the use of unstructured life story interviews, notions of gendered expectations, patriarchy, class, and inequality were brought to the forefront and questioned. Through this exploration, this research also discussed the possible transformations and changes that the mothers interviewed thought would improve their experiences.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/10530
dc.language.isoenen
dc.pendingfalse
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectmotherhooden
dc.subjectlower incomeen
dc.subjectgenderen
dc.subjectintersectionalityen
dc.subjectnarrative inquiryen
dc.subjectsocial changeen
dc.titleMothers with Lower-Incomes and Community Programming: Illuminating Narratives of Access and Experience in Kitcheneren
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Artsen
uws-etd.degree.departmentRecreation and Leisure Studiesen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineRecreation and Leisure Studiesen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws.contributor.advisorBerbary, Lisbeth
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Applied Health Sciencesen
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten

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