Motherhood : meanings, practices and ideologies
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Motherhood : meanings, practices and ideologies
(Gender and psychology)
Sage, c1991
- : pbk
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  Kyoto
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  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume explores the diverse contexts, meanings and experiences of mothering, and reveals how these intersect with prevailing social constructions and ideologies about `normal' or `ideal' motherhood.
The authors critically examine assumptions that not only underpin `commonsense' notions about motherhood, but are also produced and reproduced in childcare manuals and theoretical work on mothering. They show how dominant discourses about motherhood both circumscribe and conflict with the range of practices of mothers as they care for their children in real life. The impact of these contradictions are considered for women without children, for mothers who are younger or older than average, for mothers of children with disabilities. It investigates mothering girls as compared to boys, bringing up more than the single child assumed in much childcare literature, and current myths about working mothers.
Table of Contents
Introduction - Ann Phoenix and Anne Woollett
PART ONE: PSYCHOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY
Motherhood - Ann Phoenix and Anne Woollett
Social Construction, Politics and Psychology
Psychological Views of Mothering - Anne Woollett and Ann Phoenix
PART TWO: THE MANDATE FOR MOTHERHOOD
Having Children - Anne Woollett
Accounts of Childless Women and Women with Reproductive Problems
The Social Construction of Motherhood - Harriette Marshall
An Analysis of Childcare and Parenting Manuals
PART THREE: THE `RIGHT TIME' TO HAVE CHILDREN
Mothers under Twenty - Ann Phoenix
Outsider and Insider Views
Perspectives on Later Motherhood - Julia C Berryman
PART FOUR: MOTHERING REAL CHILDREN IN REAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Challenging Motherhood - Susan Gregory
Mothers and their Deaf Children
Sons and Daughters - Jacqueline McGuire
Mothering More than One Child - Penny Munn
PART FIVE: THE QUESTION OF EMPLOYMENT
Employed Mothers and the Care of Young Children - Barbara Tizard
Motherhood and Employment - Suzan Lewis
The Impact of Social and Organizational Values
Afterword - Anne Woollett and Ann Phoenix
Issues Related to Motherhood
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