The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

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1998
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Working mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being both nurturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing, and competitive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of intensive mothering has developed that only exacerbates the tension working mothers face.

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Working mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being both nurturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing, and competitive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tension working mothers face.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 270
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 16 Oct 1998
ISBN 10: 0300076525
ISBN 13: 9780300076523

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

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