Making Meaning, Making Motherhood

Kenneth R. Cabell, Clark University, USA.Giuseppina Marsico, University of Salerno,Italy.Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile.Jaan Valsiner, Aalborg University, Denmark.

• Dedication.Introduction to the Annals of Cultural Psychology.The Focus of the Frontier in Cultural Psychology: Cultural Arenas for Better Understanding Meaning Making Processes, Kenneth R. Cabell.Introduction to First Volume.Chapter 1. Motherhood: A Cultural Arena for the Meaning-Making Process, Carlos Cornejo, Jaan Valsiner and Giuseppina Marsico.Introduction to the Motherhood Project.Chapter 2. Making Meaning, Making Motherhood: An Introduction to the Motherhood Project, Ana Cecilia Bastos and Milton Almeida.A Personal Account of Motherhood.Chapter 3. Motherhood and Becoming: The Construction of Motherhood Through Pregnancy and Birth, Lilia Juarez.Motherhood, Metaphors, Models, and Methods.Chapter 4. The Tree of Life Developmental Trajectory Model, Sara Chaves.Building New Constructs: How Can We Create General Concepts from Particular Experiences?Chapter 5. The Experiences of Women Who Become Mothers While Diagnosed With HIV: Conceptualizing the Isolation Cycle, Renata Moreira da Silva.Chapter 6. The Experience of Voluntary Childlessness: Conceptualizing a Semiotic Theory of Resistance in the Face of Strong Social Norms, Sara Chaves.Chapter 7. The Experiences of Mothers From the Railroad Suburb of Salvador-Bahia: Conceptualizing a Semiotic Theory of Protection and Empowerment in Adverse Conditions, Lilian Perdigão Caixêta Reis and José Eduardo Ferreira Santos.Chapter 8. Commentary: Beyond Stigma: Critical Approaches to Violations of the Motherhood Narrative, Kathryn E. Frazier, Theresa E. Jackson and Heather Mangione.Chapter 9. The Experiences of Women After the Early Loss of a Child: Conceptualizing a Semiotic Theory of Coping and Mourning, Ana Clara Bastos, Brena Carvalho, and Marianna Medrado.Chapter 10. The Experience of Recurrent Gestational Losses: Semiotic Strategies of Dynamic Self-Repair After Sequential Ruptures, Ví­vian Volkmer Pontes.Chapter 11. Signs of Confrontation: Ruptures in Family Dynamics and in the Education of Immigrant Mothers, Maria Virgínia Machado Dazzani and Marilena Ristum.Chapter 12. Commentary: Rupture and Maintaining of the Transition to Motherhood, Yoriko Okamoto.Chapter 13. The Experience of Maternal Participation in the Identity Dynamics of Intersexual Individuals: Conceptualizing a Semiotic Theory of Dynamic Gender Stability, Ana Karina Canguçú-Campinho.Chapter 14. Transitioning Between Personal and Collective Worlds: How Agency Emerges in the Transition to Motherhood, Roberta Takei.Chapter 15. I-Mother the Caregiver: How a Strong Sign Persists Through Semiotic Self-Scaffolding Along Life Transitions, Ana Cecília Bastos, Ana Karina Santos, Sandra Meneses and Julianin Araujo Santos.Chapter 16. Manifold Catalyzers: Simultaneous Different Functions of Signs in the Systemic Causality Model, Márcio Santana da Silva.Chapter 17. Symbolic Motherhood: Exploring the Creation of Semiotic Binders that Integrate Personal and Collective Meanings, Elsa de Mattos and António Marcos Chaves.Chapter 18. Commentary: On Catalysts, Binding, Synthesis, Integration, Rafaelle De Luca Picione.Developing the Concepts Further: How Can We Synthesize Concepts to Construct a General Framework for Motherhood?Chapter 19. Synthetic Commentary: Trajectories of Motherhood, Tania Zittoun.Chapter 20. Synthetic Commentary: Mothers and Others: The Cultural Construction of Obvious and Obscure Identities, Nandita Chaudhary.General Conclusion.Chapter 21. Meaning Making and Motherhood: What Cultural Psychology Can Provide, Carlos Cornejo, Jaan Valsiner and Giuseppina Marsico.About the Authors.