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Controversial, unflinching and intelligent, Anne Manne discusses the big issues surrounding motherhood and childcare and proposes radical new directions for social policy. Recent generations of women thought they could have it all: children and a full family life combined with a successful career. But who had time to wonder at what price and who pays? Working mothers, stay-at-home mothers, paid childcare, women without children: these are controversial topics that inspire passionate and divisive argument and constant media attention. Anne Manne is one of the most perceptive commentators in the debate, and in this timely new book, she tackles the issues. She looks at how we value motherhood and childhood, and asks at what point the rights of mothers might conflict with the needs of children. She explores the conflict between our society's glorification of the individual and the fundamental nature of parenthood which forces our focus and energy onto others. Sometimes confronting, always humane, Motherhood covers the debates over early institutional childcare, the problems of reconciling work and family life, the crisis of fertility, and the impact of the new capitalism on the chang

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Author

Anne Manne

Publisher

Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781741158939

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Family & Relationships, Sociology, Gender Studies