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Invisible Motherhood: A Heideggerain Hermeneutical Analysis Of Motherhood Among Three Generations Of African American Women, Katherine Ferrell Fouquier

Nursing Dissertations (PhD)

The mothering role of African American women has largely been ignored in the literature. Contemporary research on the construct of becoming a mother has focused on upper middle class, White women who are partnered. When African American women are included in research, they are often poor, single, teenage mothers and their experiences have not been described within the context of the African American worldview. Hermeneutic phenomenology from an afrocentric feminist perspective is the methodological approach used in this study to provide insight, analysis, and understanding of the experiences of three generations of African American women in the transition to motherhood. …