Young motherhood in Singapore : strategies for managing stigma and maintaining positive self-esteem.

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Gomes, Gillian Anne.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Sulfikar Amir
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2013
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Social sciences
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/51653
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

The young mother identity is a stigmatized identity in Singapore, and this research illustrates how such negative perceptions that others hold of these individuals affect their sense of self and self-esteem. In this paper, I argue that young mothers do not passively accept such a negative label, but...