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Název:		Motherhood: Meanings, Practices and Ideologies (Gender and Psychology series)
Autor:		Phoenix, Ann.
Rok vydání:		1991
Identifikátory:		9780803983137

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Anotace:	Most texts on motherhood, whether academic or popular, offer paradigms and prescriptions that take little account of women's actual lives as mothers. This volume, by contrast, explores the diverse contexts, meanings and experiences of mothering, and reveals how these intersect with prevailing social constructions and ideologies about `normal' or `ideal' motherhood.The authors critically examine assumptions that not only underpin `commonsense' notions about motherhood, but are also produced and reproduced in childcare manuals and theoretical work on mothering. They show how dominant discourses about motherhood both circumscribe and conflict with the range of practices of mothers as they care for their children in real life.Going beyond the usual boundaries of developmental and social psychology, the book addresses the meanings of motherhood for women without children, for mothers who are younger or older than average, for mothers of children with disabilities. It investigates mothering girls as compared to boys, and bringing up more than the single child assumed in much childcare literature.Finally, current myths about working mothers come under the microscope. The profound personal and organizational implications of the mutual exclusivity of notions of the `ideal worker' and the `ideal mother' are scrutinized.This thought-provoking book will be essential reading for women's studies, the psychology of women, and social and developmental psychology.
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