Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities : rewriting the Sexual Contract
By: Bueskens, Petra.
Series: Routledge research in gender and society ; 67. Publisher: London Routledge 2018Description: xiii, 320p.ISBN: 9781138677425.Subject(s): Sociology -- Women's studies -- Work--Social aspects -- Women--Identity -- Sex role -- Social policy -- Motherhood -- Sex discriminationDDC classification: 306.8743 Summary: Why do women in contemporary western societies experience a contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated 'double shift' that result in widespread calls to either 'lean in' or 'opt-out'? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and maternal selves? In Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as 'individuals' and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes Bibliographical References and Index.
Why do women in contemporary western societies experience a contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction and the associated 'double shift' that result in widespread calls to either 'lean in' or 'opt-out'? How are some mothers subverting these contradictions and finding meaningful ways of reconciling their autonomous and maternal selves? In Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as 'individuals' and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter.
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