The cultural contradictions of motherhood /

Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work. As more and more women enter the workplace, it woul...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hays, Sharon, 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c1996 New Haven : ©1996 New Haven [Conn.] : c1996 New Haven, CT : 1996 New Haven, CT : c1996 New Haven, CT : 1996
Subjects:	Motherhood Mothers > United States Maternité Mères > États-Unis Barnuppfostran Berufstätigkeit Könsidentitet Moderskap Motherhood > United States Mothers Mödrar > psykologi > Förenta staterna Mutterschaft Sociologi Soziokultureller Faktor Working mothers > United States Frau Maternal Behavior > psychology Mothers > psychology Women, Working > psychology Moederschap Child Rearing Gender Identity Mother-Child Relations Sociology United States

Table of Contents:

1. Why Can't a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?
2. From Rods to Reasoning: The Historical Construction of Intensive Mothering
3. "What Every Baby Knows": Contemporary Advice on Appropriate Child Rearing
4. Sorting the Mail: The Social Bases of Variations in Mothering
5. Intensive Mothering: Women's Work on Behalf of the Sacred Child
6. The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
7. Love, Self-Interest, Power, and Opposition: Untangling the Roots of Intensive Mothering
Appendix A. Interview Questions
Appendix B. Survey Questionnaire
Why can't a mother be more like a businessman?
From rods to reasoning : the historical construction of intensive mothering
"What every baby knows" : contemporary advice on appropriate child rearing
Sorting the mail : the social bases of variations in mothering
Intensive mothering : women's work on behalf of the sacred child
The mommy wars : ambivalence, ideological work, and the cultural contradictions of motherhood
Love, self-interest, power, and opposition : untangling the roots of intensive mothering
1 Why Can't a Mother Be More Like a Businessman?
2. From Rods to Reasoning: The Historical Construction of Intensive Mothering
3. "What Every Baby Knows": Contemporary Advice on Appropriate Child Rearing
4. Sorting the Mail: The Social Bases of Variations in Mothering
5. Intensive Mothering: Women's Work on Behalf of the Sacred Child
6. The Mommy Wars: Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
7. Love, Self-Interest, Power, and Opposition: Untangling the Roots of Intensive Mothering
Appendix A. Interview Questions
Appendix B. Survey Questionnaire.

The cultural contradictions of motherhood /

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