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Making modern mothers.
An exciting and timely book documenting the transition to motherhood over generations and time.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Making Modern Mothers; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Motherhood at large; Making modern motherhood; Situations in a common culture; A comparative and dynamic approach; Outline of the book; A new politics of motherhood?; 2. Conception; Storying conception; Conception as survival; Conception as inevitable; Conception as earned; The identity work of new motherhood; 3. Body; Reading the body; The maternal body in contemporary culture; Living the pregnant body; Pregnancy as part of a body story; Conclusion; 4. Relationships; Couplings; Compulsory parenthood?
- Intergenerational dynamics: accounts of progress and declineMother-daughter dialogues; Father-daughter relationships; Conclusion; 5. Expert advice; The expert and the mother; Pregnancy magazines as purveyors of knowledge; Books; Mothers as 'organic experts'; Sociable mothering
- groups, self-help and social networking; The situation; Conclusion; 6. Work; Work and social change; Work in biographical perspective; Making motherhood work; Conclusion; 7. Commodities; Considering consumer culture; The material culture of motherhood; Maternal economies; Baby things; Informal economies.
- Buggies and nappiesThe nursery; Conclusion; 8. Birth; The cultural context of birth; Informed choices: anticipating birth; The 'scary bits' of birth; 'True life' birth stories; Intergenerational birth stories; Narrating intergenerational embodiment; Normal birth and normalising birth; Conclusion; 9. After birth; Situations and the practices of mothering; Self, identity and change; Maternal publics; Appendix 1: The study design, methods and sample; Questionnaire; Interviews; Case studies; Cultural analysis; Appendix 2: Description of the sample; References; Postscript; Index.