Rima Apple

Perfect Motherhood

Science and Childrearing in America

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how the belief that mothers need to be savvy about the scientific directives has shifted the role of childrearer away from the mother and toward the professional establishment. The author discusses how most women are finding ways to negotiate among the scientific recommendations, their own knowledge, and the reality of their daily lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538433
• ISBN-10: 0813538432
• Artikelnr.: 22466550

Autorenporträt

Rima D. Apple is Vilas Life Cycle Professor in the school of human ecology and the women’s studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Redefining motherhood
"Follow the lead of physicians": Motherhood in the late nineteenth century
"Mamma's scientific
she knows all the laws": Motherhood in the early twentieth century
"Follow my instructions exactly": Experts to mothers in the interwar period
and during World War II
"The modern way": Mothers, circa 1920-1945
"Now I know that an authority has the same opinion as mine": Motherhood in
the postwar period
"Use it to guide, not to dictate": Motherhood in the late twentieth century
Conclusion: "I wanted to do it right."