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The paradoxical promotion of an active femininity
[La promotion paradoxale d’une féminité active]

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  • Lilian Lahieyte

    (CESSP - Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Based on an ethnographic study and on quantitative data, this paper deals with the social construction of welfare enlisted single mothers' attitudes toward employment. On the one hand these recipients have a hard time accessing job-seeking program, while their caseworkers try to get them to adhere to an "active femininity". Some of the recipients' attitudes toward employment is therefore disconsidered, as they are assigned to a familialist treatment while being aware that they don't meet the active femininity's expectations. Nevertheless, other recipients, who often hold higher school degrees, access job-seeking programs. It allows them to maintain a hopeful attitude toward employment and to selectively make the active feminity their own.

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  • Lilian Lahieyte, 2022. "The paradoxical promotion of an active femininity [La promotion paradoxale d’une féminité active]," Post-Print hal-03578722, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03578722
    DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12818-2.p.0021
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