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Motherhood : contemporary transitions and generational change / Tina Miller

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024

1 online resource (viii, 187 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2023)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-009-41336-7 (ebook); 978-1-009-41331-2 (hardback); 978-1-009-41334-3 (paperback)

978-1-009-41331-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1414978019     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781009413367

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LOC-SH: Motherhood ; Mothers ; Social change

As the competing demands of care and paid work become increasingly complex, has there ever been a more challenging time to be a woman and a mother? Comparing two studies conducted across two generations, Motherhood explores women's experiences of becoming first-time mothers. Through richly narrated, real-time accounts of transition, Tina Miller examines what has changed since her original study was conducted twenty-one years ago. Using sociological and feminist perspectives, she analyses how motherhood has further intensified against a harsher neoliberal backdrop. The book examines the social, political and moral contours in which motherhood is situated which, in the contemporary context, include ideas of planned labours and work/life balance as part of potent, maternal prenatal imaginings. Birth continues to change everything, and the qualitative, longitudinal and comparative data show these ideas to be, mostly, illusory.