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The Demands of Motherhood Agents, Roles and Recognition

Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smyth, Lisa
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London Palgrave Macmillan UK 2012, 2012
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Subjects:	Family Childhood Social Policy Popular Science In Psychology Children, Youth And Family Policy Childhood, Adolescence And Society Sex (psychology) Identity (psychology) Social Sciences Social Groups Self And Identity Sociology Gender Studies Psychology Gender Expression Families / Social Aspects Families Adolescence Self Gender Identity
Online Access:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137010254?nosfx=y
Collection:	Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa

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Summary:	Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope
Physical Description:	VIII, 178 p online resource
ISBN:	9781137010254