Modern motherhood

<p>Winner of the Women's History Network Book Prize 2013<br><br>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. <br><br>Motherhood is an area where a number of discourses and practices meet. The book forms a thematic study looking at aspects of mothers' lives such as education health care psychology labour market trends and state intervention. Looking through the prism of motherhood provides a way of understanding the complex social changes that have taken place in the post-war world. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the field of twentieth-century British social history. However it will also be of interest to scholars in related fields and a general readership with an interest in British social history.<br><br>'A fascinating survey of women's experience of motherhood' 'eminently readable' 'a solid and thoughtful study' 'an outstanding piece of oral history' and 'ambitiously wide ranging'. <br>The judging panel for the Women's History Network Book Prize 2013.</p>