Thomson (social research, Open U., UK) et al. examine what it means to be a mother today in the UK. They followed 62 British women in 2005 as they approached birth (and some into the first year of mot
What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book documents the transition to motherhood o
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