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Title Australian mothering : historical and sociological perspectives / C. Pascoe Leahy, P. Bueskens, editors
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
©2019
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Description 1 online resource (498 pages) : 11 illustrations
Contents Introducing and Analysing Maternal Studies; Constructing Mothers as Citizens, Workers and Wives; Remembering Families: Mothers, Fathers and Children; The History and Politics of Childbirth and Breastfeeding; Becoming a Mother: Identity, Emotion and Time Use; Childcare, Welfare and Wages: Financial Survival in a Gendered Economy; Maternal Citizens and Maternalist Politics
Summary This collection defines the field of maternal studies in Australia for the first time. Leading motherhood researchers explore how mothering has evolved across Australian history as well as the joys and challenges of being a mother today. The contributors cover pregnancy, birth, relationships, childcare, domestic violence, time use, work, welfare, policy and psychology, from a diverse range of maternal perspectives. Utilising a matricentric feminist framework, Australian Mothering foregrounds the experiences, emotions and perspectives of mothers to better understand how Australian motherhood has developed historically and contemporaneously. Drawing upon their combined sociological and historical expertise, Bueskens and Pascoe Leahy have carefully curated a collection that presents compelling research on past and present perspectives on maternity in Australia, which will be relevant to researchers, advocates and policy makers interested in the changing role of mothers in Australian society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Motherhood -- Australia
Sociology.
Social groups.
Families.
Children.
Adolescence.
Nuclear families.
sociology.
adolescence.
Nuclear families
Adolescence
Children
Families
Motherhood
Social groups
Sociology
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific -- History
Subject Australia
Pacific Ocean -- Islands of the Pacific
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pascoe Leahy, Carla, editor
Bueskens, Petra, 1972- editor.
ISBN 9783030202675
3030202674