Title New motherhood : cultural and personal transitions in the 1980s / Mira Crouch and Lenore Manderson

Published Yverdon, Switzerland ; Langhorne, Pa. : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, [1993] ©1993

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Description vii, 214 pages ; 24 cm Contents Pt. 1. Initial Conceptions -- Introduction: Our agenda, among others. Ch. 1. Methods, limits and limitations -- Pt. 2. Birth, the Central Issue. Ch. 2. Images of birth, past and present. Ch. 3. Timely deliveries: women and men in labour -- Pt. 3. Before and After the Event. Ch. 4. Belabouring the pregnant body. Ch. 5. Bonding, sooner or later. Ch. 6. Feeling down but keeping afloat after the birth -- Pt. 4. Afterthoughts. Ch. 7. People matter, in theory Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-206) and index Subject Childbirth -- Australia. Motherhood -- Australia. Mothers -- Australia -- Attitudes. SUBJECT Australia -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 -- 1976-1990 Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311 Author Manderson, Lenore. LC no. 93014102 ISBN 2881249450

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