The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood
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The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

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Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurturing and unselfish while engaged in child rearing but competitive and ambitious at work. As more and more women enter the workplace, it would seem reasonable for society to make mothering a simpler and more efficien...more
Hardcover, 272 pages
Published August 28th 1996 by Yale University Press (first published 1996)
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