“Where is the mother’s instinct?” : a case study on how motherhood is learned through the practice of Chinese confinement.

• Main Author: Lee, Wei Qi.
• Other Authors: Tam Chen Hee
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/34274
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Motherhood has always been treated as an essential phase of life in the female life course, so much so that it has been seen as biological by many around the world. But in recent years, studies on how motherhood is a social construct, and thus a learned process, have started to gain precedence withi...