Motherhood of New Middle-Class Women in Elementary and Junior High School Children's Afterschool Education --Women in Nanjing and Shanghai as Survey Object--

Abstract

In the texture of education being valued and mothers becoming the main care giver, this research eagers to find out what mothers are doing to help with children's afterschool study, what kind of anxiety or problems they are suffering during the study as well as being a mother, do they ever thought about an ideal motherhood, by using a series of conceptions like: new middle class, motherhood, role labor, invisible educator This research uses participant observation and deep-interview as methods to survey and selects 6 mothers whose child is in elementary school or junior high in Nanjing and Shanghai as survey object. In conclusion, first of all, survey objects all take “become a mother” as nature, however, they still need to obtain motherhood by role laboring consciously or unconsciously. Secondly, when the scale of school education is being narrowed, needs of afterschool education is filled with market economy, which let mothers become an invisible shadow educator and suffer some motherhood anxiety.