The cultural contradictions of motherhood /
Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work. As more and more women enter the workplace, it woul...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Why can't a mother be more like a businessman?
- From rods to reasoning : the historical construction of intensive mothering
- "What every baby knows" : contemporary advice on appropriate child rearing
- Sorting the mail : the social bases of variations in mothering
- Intensive mothering : women's work on behalf of the sacred child
- The mommy wars : ambivalence, ideological work, and the cultural contradictions of motherhood
- Love, self-interest, power, and opposition : untangling the roots of intensive mothering.
