Abstrakt
This article tries to answer to following questions - How everyday life maternity practices in the Czech Republic are transformed in three generations (50s and 60s, 70s and 80s and Present = mothers born in the 60s, 70s and 80s)? What aspects of motherhood made individual projects in these generations? To answer these research questions was used problem centered interview (eg. Witzel 2012), which provides unique data collection techniques, which allow the preservation of our own construction of reality and taking into account the impact of social and cultural norms and aspects.
In each generation was interviewed 8-10 women. At the theoretical level research builds on the concept of reflexive project of "I" from Anthony Giddens, which assumes variability of our identity based on our experience.
Furthermore, research refers to the concept of project of motherhood and general culture of motherhood (Thomson, Lauder, Hadfield, Sharpe 2011), which also highlight the influence of context on maternity practices, but cautioned that, especially in maternity, exists in a certain period of time a specific ideal of mother to which women relate and then they may or may not integrate it into their own project of motherhood. Selected combination reveals how they are or were individual projects of motherhood shaped by social and cultural norms in each generations.