Awards

• Winner of The Women's History Network Book Prize 2013 (UK)
• Winner of The Women’s History Network Book Prize 2013 (UK)

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Author:   Angela Davis ,  Pamela Sharpe ,  Penny Summerfield ,  Lynn Abrams
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780719095467

ISBN 10:   0719095468
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   31 May 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Family and community: surveying women and the family 3. Educating mothers: family, school and antenatal education 4. Pregnancy and childbirth: antenatal care, birth and postnatal care 5. Experts and childcare 'bibles': mothers and advice literature 6. Working and caring: women's labour inside and outside the home 7. Breadwinners and homemakers: ideals of men and women in the family 8. Conclusions Select bibliography Index -- .

Reviews

'Lifts the lid on the last great parenting taboo.' Tracy McVeigh, The Guardian, 17/03/2012 -- Tracy McVeigh. The Guardian 'This book is published as part of Manchester University Press valuable Gender in History series that provides a vital publishing space for significant monographs.' Family & Community History, Vol. 16/1, April 2013 -- . Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize, 2013 -- . Modern Motherhood offers a fascinating and complex picture of women's lives as they negotiated the principal changes in post 1945 society. -- Sandra Trudgen Dawson. Journal of Contemporary History 49(4)

'Lifts the lid on the last great parenting taboo.' Tracy McVeigh, The Guardian, 17/03/2012 -- Tracy McVeigh. The Guardian 'This book is published as part of Manchester University Press valuable Gender in History series that provides a vital publishing space for significant monographs.' Family & Community History, Vol. 16/1, April 2013 -- . Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize, 2013 -- .

Author Information

Angela Davis is a Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Warwick -- .

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