Anne Phoenix

Download or read book Motherhood written by Ann Phoenix and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-11-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most academic and popular texts on motherhood offer prescriptions about ideal mothering which take little account of the diverse realities of women's lives. Ths book explores the range, contexts and experiences of motherhood for women. conflict with the dominant ideologically-based social constructions. The ideology of motherhood is usually hidden under commonsense ideas about mothering, but is also reproduced in academic discourse about child development and motherhood. Dominant discourses about normal and ideal mothering are shown to circumscribe and to be in conflict with the range of practices that mothers in varying circumstances seek to employ with their children.