Making meaning, making motherhood / edited by Kenneth R. Cabell, Giuseppina Marsico, Carlos Cornejo, Jaan Valsiner.

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The focus of the frontier in cultural psychology: cultural arenas for better understanding meaning making processes / Kenneth R. Cabell -- 1. Motherhood: a cultural arena for the meaning-making process / Carlos Cornejo, Jaan Valsiner and Giuseppina Marsico -- 2. Making meaning, making motherhood: an introduction to the motherhood project / Ana Cecilia Bastos and Milton Almeida -- 3. Motherhood and becoming: the construction of motherhood through pregnancy and birth / Lilia Juarez -- 4. The tree of life developmental trajectory model / Sara Chaves -- 5. The experiences of women who become mothers while diagnosed with HIV: conceptualizing the isolation cycle / Renata Moreira da Silva -- 6. The experience of voluntary childlessness: conceptualizing a semiotic theory of resistance in the face of strong social norms / Sara Chaves -- 7. The experiences of mothers from the railroad suburb of Salvador-Bahia: conceptualizing a semiotic theory of protection and empowerment in adverse conditions / Lilian Perdigao Caixeta Reis and Jose Eduardo Ferreira Santos -- 8. Commentary: beyond stigma: critical approaches to violations of the motherhood narrative / Kathryn E. Frazier, Theresa E. Jackson and Heather Mangione -- 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 -- 10. The experience of recurrent gestational losses: semiotic strategies of dynamic self-repair after sequential ruptures / Vivian Volkmer Pontes -- 11. Signs of confrontation: ruptures in family dynamics and in the education of immigrant mothers / Maria Virginia Machado Dazzani and Marilena Ristum -- 12. Commentary: rupture and maintaining of the transition to motherhood / Yoriko Okamoto -- 13. The experience of maternal participation in the identity dynamics of intersexual individuals: conceptualizing a semiotic theory of dynamic gender stability / Ana Karina Cangucu-Campinho -- 14. Transitioning between personal and collective worlds: how agency emerges in the transition to motherhood / Roberta Takei -- 15. 'I-mother the caregiver': how a strong sign persists through semiotic self-scaffolding along life transitions / Ana Cecilia Bastos, Ana Karina Santos, Sandra Meneses and Julianin Araujo Santos -- 16. Manifold catalyzers: simultaneous different functions of signs in the systemic causality model / Marcio Santana da Silva -- 17. Symbolic motherhood: exploring the creation of semiotic binders that integrate personal and collective meanings / Elsa de Mattos and Antonio Marcos Chaves -- 18. Commentary: on catalysts, binding, synthesis, integration / Rafaelle de Luca Picione -- 19. Synthetic commentary: trajectories of motherhood / Tania Zittoun -- 20. Synthetic commentary: mothers and others: the cultural construction of obvious and obscure identities / Nandita Chaudhary -- 21. Meaning making and motherhood: what cultural psychology can provide / Carlos Cornejo, Jaan valsiner and Giuseppina Marsico.

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