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Working mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being both nurturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing, and competitive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tension working mothers face.

The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: 10/16/1998 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780300076523, 978-0300076523
      ISBN10: 0300076525
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      Gender studies: women and girls Society and culture: general Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Working mothers in the 1990s face the challenge of being both nurturing and unselfish at home while engaged in child rearing, and competitive and ambitious at work. This text argues that an ideology of "intensive mothering" has developed that only exacerbates the tension working mothers face.

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