Format:
1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009413367
,
9781009413312
,
9781009413343
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Nov 2023)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009413312
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781009413312
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/9781009413367
