The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.72 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300066821 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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b. said Interesting, but the methods are questionable. An interesting book for anyone who has ever grappled with balancing work and motherhood. However, Hays' review of secondary sources on family life throughout the ages reads like an undergraduate term-paper. Hays' analysis of child-rearing manuals concludes that while people are buying these manuals, the effect upon them is unknown. The meat of her analysis is based upon interviews with Interesting, but the methods are questionable An interesting book for anyone who has ever grappled with balancing work and motherhood. However, Hays' review of secondary sources on family life throughout the ages reads like an undergraduate term-paper. Hays' analysis of child-rearing manuals concludes that while people are buying these manuals, the effect upon them is unknown. The meat of her analysis is based upon interviews with 38 women - a focus group too small to contain any conclusive evidence on the topic. If you are looking for a sociological analysis of motherhood & work, the rigorous quantitative approaches are just not there. If, however,. 8 women - a focus group too small to contain any conclusive evidence on the topic. If you are looking for a sociological analysis of motherhood & work, the rigorous quantitative approaches are just not there. If, however,
of Virginia) examines these conflicts by looking at the history of child-rearing practices, analyzing three popular current child care manuals (Spock, Brazelton, and Leach), and conducting in-depth interviews with 38 mothers of toddlers from diverse social classes and ethnic backgrounds. Her conclusion: modern parenting is a child-centered, emotionally, financially, and labor-intensive process that is not cost-effective. It is not a necessary purchase for others.?Barbara M. Bibel, Oakland P.L., Cal.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. A revolution that will transform parenting into shared work among social equals, she notes, will give women greater power and make men more active participants in child rearing. Women bear the major responsibility for this work because it is beneficial to the white male capitalist political establishment. From Library Journal With more than half of all American mothers working outside the home, the confli
Drawing on ideas about mothering since the Middle Ages, on contemporary child-rearing manuals and on in-depth interviews with mothers from a range of social classes, Hays traces the evolution of the ideology of intensive mothering - an ideology that holds the individual mother primarily respon-sible for child rearing and dictates that the process is to be child-centred, expert guided, emotionally absorbing, labour-intensive and financially expensive. In attempting to deal with our deep uneasiness about self-interest, we have imposed unrealistic and unremunerated ob