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A Communicative Framework of Mothering Identity amid Postpartum Depression: The Influence of Expectations, Relationships, and Social Discourses on Multiple Identity Frames

(Hardback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

A Communicative Framework of Mothering Identity amid Postpartum Depression: The Influence of Expectations, Relationships, and Social Discourses on Multiple Identity Frames

Contributors:

By (Author) Kelly M. Weikle

ISBN:

9781666961126

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

19th February 2026

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Main Subject:

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

1

Dimensions:

Width 152mm, Height 229mm

Description

This book argues that using a communicative framework to explore identity manifestations and tensions during postpartum depression is critical to achieving a fuller understanding of the challenges women face as they become mothers.

Through expansion on the Communication Theory of Identity, author Kelly M. Weikle demonstrates how messages, relational ties, and social expectations and ideologies all influence identity tensions as women experience postpartum depression and motherhood. These tensions and challenges can manifest through a number of health crises, including extreme anxiety and obsessions, intrusive thoughts of escape, bouts of insomnia, and intense feelings of overwhelm and maternal failure. Although many of the chiefly observed effects are medical in nature, Weikle goes further to examine the implications of these effects on mothering identity, including the loss of control and sense of self. This books offers a unique advancement in both theory and praxis by offering both theoretical insight and suggestions for improving social support systems for new mothers.

Author Bio

Kelly M. Weikle is an interpretive identity communication scholar and is Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Sam Houston State University.

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