TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meng, Bingchun
JF  - Javnost-The Public
TI  - When Anxious Mothers Meet Social Media: Wechat, Motherhood and the Imaginary of the Good Life
VL  - 27
IS  - 2
PY  - 2020
SN  - 1854-8377
PB  - EURICOM
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2020.1727276
N2  - In this article I have tried to unpack the anxiety of Chinese middle-class mothers through examining the dialectics of structural changes and discursive shifts. The theoretical premises are that, on the one hand, China’s highly compressed modernisation process has had a major impact on parenting arrangements and parenting ethos; on the other hand, the practice of mothering and the imaginary of motherhood have significant implications for social reproduction. Combining empirical materials collected through a social media platform, in-depth interviews and focus groups, I have teased out the classed imaginaries of good mothering and how these are subsequently linked to imaginaries of the good life.
U1  - Print ISSN: 1318-3222
ER  -