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Modern motherhood : women and family in England, 1945–2000
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Davis, Angela (2012) Modern motherhood : women and family in England, 1945–2000. Gender in History . Manchester: University of Manchester Press. ISBN 9780719084553
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Abstract
This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book therefore forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers’ lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of twentieth-century British social history. However it will also be of interest to scholars in related fields and a general readership with an interest in British social history, and the history of family and community in modern Britain.
Item Type: | Book | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
Series Name: | Gender in History | ||||
Publisher: | University of Manchester Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Manchester | ||||
ISBN: | 9780719084553 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2012 | ||||
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Number of Pages: | 272 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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