| Description |
xiii, 426 pages |
| Contents |
Victorian model for the role of mother -- Mother is a role, women are human beings -- Why motherhood? -- Nonmotherhood -- How much motherhood? -- Storm signals -- Variety of scripts -- What do you mean, work? -- Severed roles -- Professional mother -- Working mother -- Other half -- Physical and social technologies -- Medical, pharmacological, and psychological technologies -- Politics of motherhood -- Economics of motherhood -- Experimental communities -- Revolution via reform -- New balance |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mother and child.
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Mothers.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- History.
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Women -- United States.
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| LC no. |
74013391 |
| ISBN |
0140040404 |
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