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The Demands of Motherhood: Agents, Roles and Recognition 2012th Edition
Author(s): L. Smyth (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 11 April 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 186 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230579302
- ISBN-13: 9780230579309
Book Description
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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About the Author
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.
