Modern motherhood [electronic resource] : women and family in England, c. 1945-2000 / Angela Davis.
2012
HQ759 .D285 2012eb
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Title
Modern motherhood [electronic resource] : women and family in England, c. 1945-2000 / Angela Davis.
Author
Davis, Angela, 1981-
ISBN
0719084555
9780719084553
9781847794161 (e-book)
9780719084553
9781847794161 (e-book)
Publication Details
Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, c2012.
Language
English
Description
vii, 242 p.
Call Number
HQ759 .D285 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.4
Summary
This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book therefore forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers' lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will consider how women's experiences of motherhood reveal the change in women's lives, gender relations, culture and society, family and community patterns, health and welfare, and the relationship between the family and the state, that took place in these years.
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This book examines women's experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book therefore forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers' lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will consider how women's experiences of motherhood reveal the change in women's lives, gender relations, culture and society, family and community patterns, health and welfare, and the relationship between the family and the state, that took place in these years.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gender in history
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Table of Contents
Family and community : surveying women and the family
Educating mothers : family, school and antenatal education
Pregnancy and childbirth : antenatal care, birth and postnatal care
Experts and childcare 'bibles' : mothers and advice literature
Working and caring : women's labour inside and outside the home
Breadwinners and homemakers : ideals of men and women in the family.
Educating mothers : family, school and antenatal education
Pregnancy and childbirth : antenatal care, birth and postnatal care
Experts and childcare 'bibles' : mothers and advice literature
Working and caring : women's labour inside and outside the home
Breadwinners and homemakers : ideals of men and women in the family.