H2020Индивидуална стипендия2021–2023

SingleMother · Evolving Attitudes toward Single Motherhood in the UK and Russia

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-10-01 → 2023-09-30
Финансиране от ЕС: 212 934 €
Участници: 1
Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

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Резултати накратко

Evolving Attitudes toward Single Motherhood in the UK and Russia

The project aims to address the evolving attitudes toward single motherhood in the UK and Russia. Single motherhood has become a global phenomenon, with a significant proportion of women in both countries being unmarried and raising children. However, single mothers face stigmatization and societal challenges. This project seeks to explore how these attitudes have evolved in two distinct societies. The survey is important for several reasons. It helps uncover the cultural tools, both literary and visual, that contribute to the construction of the notion of single motherhood. This research advances gender equality, recognizing the diversity within the community of single mothers, and challenging stereotypes. It provides insights into the impact of cultural norms on the role of literature and visual media in shaping societal perceptions. The project has been designed to fulfil three main research objectives. First, the research investigated contemporary policies on single motherhood, with a focus on the UK and Russia. Second, the project examined the gendered cultural ideologies in the UK and Russia related to single motherhood, from the early 21st century to the present. This analysis includes self-help books, children’s illustrated literature and young adult fiction. Finally, the survey investigated how these ideologies and attitudes are represented in children’s illustrated texts, delving into the visual aspect of meaning-making in picturebooks and children’s illustrated magazines. The project’s results offer valuable insights into the representation of single mothers and their experiences in literature and visual media in the UK and Russia. The outcomes contribute to the fields of gender studies, political studies, literary studies, and social semiotics. They enhance our understanding of cultural norms and values related to single motherhood, providing a basis for discussions on societal perceptions and attitudes. The visual grammar of single motherhood discerned in the project can serve as a valuable resource for educators. The insights into the representation of single mothers can inform policy discussions related to single mothers’ rights and societal acceptance.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Single motherhood has become a widespread phenomenon within contemporary societies, part of an ongoing revolution in family life. In order to address the outdated and thoughtless language being used to describe single mothers and their children, I will scrutinize the emergence and development of 21st century European cultural attitudes toward single motherhood using desk-based methods. To reconstruct its evolvement since the beginning of the century, this study proposes an innovative multidisciplinary approach, which combines comparative analysis of the UK’s and Russia’s policies toward single mothers with content and multiple approaches to text analysis of non-fiction, children’s and young adult fiction, social semiotics and multimodal discourse analysis of children’s illustrated literature. The overall aim of the proposed research is to advance my career through the completion of the present project, which examines the development and current stage of the cultural attitudes and policies directed toward single motherhood in two politically different countries. This aim is reflected through three primary objectives: to investigate contemporary European policy on single motherhood with focus on the UK and Russia, with attention to public attitudes toward the variation (unwed mothers, widows, divorced mothers, single mothers by choice) within single mothers as a social group; to examine the gendered British and Russian cultural ideologies since the beginning of the century up to the present and expressed through non-fiction and children’s and young adult literature and centered around social and cultural facets: abortion, virginity, affairs with men, pedagogical strategies, bad habits, beauty and clothes, professional career and education, and (re)marriage; to examine how this coding system was adapted to rules and grammar of the visual and, therefore, represented in children’s illustrated texts.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

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