The Demands of Motherhood: Agents, Roles and Recognition

by L. Smyth

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349367924
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

LISA SMYTH Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and has also been a visiting professor at San Diego State University's Department of Women's Studies, USA. She works on issues of gender, reproduction and social change. She has previously published Abortion and Nation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Modernity, Normativity and Recognition Motherhood's Normativity Authentic Motherhood: Expressive Individualism Choosing Motherhood: Rational Planning Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism Conclusion Notes Appendix 1: Participant Information References Index