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The demands of motherhood = agents, roles and recognitions /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The demands of motherhood/ Lisa Smyth.
Reminder of title:	agents, roles and recognitions /
Author:	Smyth, Lisa,
Published:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2012.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137010254
ISBN:	9781137010254 (electronic bk.)

The demands of motherhood = agents, roles and recognitions /
Smyth, Lisa,1969-

The demands of motherhoodagents, roles and recognitions /[electronic resource] :Lisa Smyth. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2012. - 1 online resource. - Palgrave macmillan studies in family and intimate life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Modernity, Normativity and Recognition -- Motherhood's Normativity -- Authentic Motherhood: Expressive Individualism -- Choosing Motherhood: Rational Planning -- Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix 1: Participant Information -- References -- Index.

Motherhood is the focus of much public scrutiny, situated as it seems to be at the frontier of processes of social order and change. Much has been written about the difficulties of mothering in a context of ever-expanding expert advice, as well as apparently increasing expectations that the mother-child bond be cultivated through intensive care-giving. This study returns to neglected sociological questions concerning the connections between agency and normative complexity, through the pragmatist interpretation it offers of the recognition dynamics shaping this deeply contested and emotionally fraught role. Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty mostly middle-class mothers across the UK and US, this book offers a three-party typology of the coping strategies women adopt. The various combinations of expressivism, instrumentalism and pragmatism taken up by respondents as they go about asserting normative authority and seeking esteem for the competence and quality of their mothering, provides the focus of attention.

ISBN: 9781137010254 (electronic bk.)

Source: 347952Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

859359
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ759 / .S625 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 306.874/3

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