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Social Science Women's Studies

Stay-At-Home Mothers

Dialogues and Debates

edited by Elizabeth Reid Boyd & Gayle Letherby

Publisher
Demeter Press
Initial publish date
Oct 2014
Category
Women's Studies
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781926452562
    Publish Date
    Oct 2014
    List Price
    $19.99

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This book includes a remarkably diverse range of voices and perspectives on the under-researched topic of mothers electing to stay at home to care for their children or returning home after being in the paid workforce. As the first international collection of its kind, it explores with sensitivity and insight some of the deep cultural, personal and policy tensions around stay-at- home mothering. Elizabeth Reid Boyd and Gayle Letherby draw together contemporary social science research, media analyses and reflections on the lived experience of mothers. This book is distinguished by its openness, moving beyond familiar stereotypes and toward a different way of thinking about this important issue. —Julie Stephens, College of Arts, Victoria University

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