Women, motherhood and childrearing
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Women, motherhood and childrearing
（Women in society）
Macmillan, 1993
- : pbk
- : hard
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Bibliography: p147-155
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Motherhood is a central fact of many women's lives. Despite this, relatively little has been written about how maternity and childcare affect women's lives. This book looks at the relationship between women's identity and the capacity for motherhood. It examines the changing social and economic conditions in which women become mothers or, in fewer cases, do not have children; the opportunities women have to control their own fertility and the implications of 'new' reproductive technologies. This book brings together a wide range of topics, as well as considering some of the contradictions and neglected questions in feminist thinking about reproduction and childrearing.
Table of Contents
Introduction - The Experience of Motherhood - A Word of Advice: Childrearing Manuals from the 1870 to the 1950s - Mother Knows Best: Theories of Childrearing since the Second World War - Motherhood: What Choice Do We Have? - Women and the New Reproductive Technologies - Feminism and Motherhood - Daughters and Sons: What is Non-Sexist Childrearing? - Conclusion - Index
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