Modern motherhood : women and family in England, c. 1945-2000 / / Angela Davis.
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. Motherhoo...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender in history
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| Physical Description: | vii, 242 p. |
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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.