Name: The Demands of Motherhood
ISBN: 978-1-137-01025-4

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Lisa Smyth ⁰

Lisa Smyth
1. Queen’s University Belfast, UK
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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life (PSFL)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-viii

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Introduction
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 1-10
Modernity, Normativity and Recognition
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 11-36
Motherhood’s Normativity
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 37-55
Authentic Motherhood: Expressive Individualism
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 56-82
Choosing Motherhood: Rational Planning
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 83-114
Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 115-146
Conclusion
- Lisa Smyth
Pages 147-154
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Pages 155-178

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Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.

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Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Lisa Smyth

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LISA SMYTH Lecturer in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, UK, and has also been a visiting professor at San Diego State University's Department of Women's Studies, USA. She works on issues of gender, reproduction and social change. She has previously published Abortion and Nation.

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Book Title: The Demands of Motherhood
Book Subtitle: Agents, Roles and Recognition
Authors: Lisa Smyth
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137010254
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57930-9Published: 11 April 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36792-4Published: 01 January 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-01025-4Published: 11 April 2012
Series ISSN: 2731-6440
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6459
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 178
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Gender Studies, Family, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Popular Science in Psychology, Self and Identity

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Modernity, Normativity and Recognition

Motherhood’s Normativity

Authentic Motherhood: Expressive Individualism

Choosing Motherhood: Rational Planning

Balancing Acts: Maternal Pragmatism

Conclusion

Back Matter

Keywords

About this book

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Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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