Angela Davis

Modern motherhood

Women and family in England, 1945-2000

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095467
• ISBN-10: 0719095468
• Artikelnr.: 40477468

Autorenporträt

Angela Davis is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Family and community: surveying women and the family 3.
Educating mothers: family, school and antenatal education 4. Pregnancy and
childbirth: antenatal care, birth and postnatal care 5. Experts and
childcare 'bibles': mothers and advice literature 6. Working and caring:
women's labour inside and outside the home 7. Breadwinners and homemakers:
ideals of men and women in the family 8. Conclusions Select bibliography
Index