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Modern motherhood : women and family in England, c. 1945-2000 by Angela Davis, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Manchester University Press Staff is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This book examines women’s experiences of motherhood in England in the years between 1945 and 2000. Based on a new body of 160 oral history interviews, the book offers the first comprehensive historical study of the experience of motherhood in the second half of the twentieth century. Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book therefore forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers’ lives such as education, health care, psychology, labour market tre

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Author
Angela Davis, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Manchester University Press Staff
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Published
2012
Language
EN
ISBN
9781847794161
Category
social science
Subjects
History, Sociology, Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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