The cultural contradictions of motherhood

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  • Author: Hays, Sharon
    Contents:
    • 1. Why Can't a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?
    • 2. From Rods to Reasoning: The Historical Construction of Intensive Mothering
    • 3. "What Every Baby Knows": Contemporary Advice on Appropriate Child Rearing
    • 4. Sorting the Mail: The Social Bases of Variations in Mothering
    • 5. Intensive Mothering: Women's Work on Behalf of the Sacred Child
    • 6. The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
    • 7. Love, Self-Interest, Power, and Opposition: Untangling the Roots of Intensive Mothering
    • Appendix A. Interview Questions
    • Appendix B. Survey Questionnaire.
    Original Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1996
    Language(s): English

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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1996

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ISBN

0300066821

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