Motherhood

As The Competing Demands Of Care And Paid Work Become Increasingly Complex Has There Ever Been A More Challenging Time To Be A Woman And A Mother? Comparing Two Studies Conducted Across Two Generations Motherhood Explores Women''S Experiences Of Becoming First-Time Mothers. Through Richly Narrated Real-Time Accounts Of Transition Tina Miller Examines What Has Changed Since Her Original Study Was Conducted Twenty-One Years Ago. Using Sociological And Feminist Perspectives She Analyses How Motherhood Has Further Intensified Against A Harsher Neoliberal Backdrop.The Book Examines The Social Political And Moral Contours In Which Motherhood Is Situated Which In The Contemporary Context Include Ideas Of Planned Labours And Work/Life Balance As Part Of Potent Maternal Prenatal Imaginings. Birth Continues To Change Everything And The Qualitative Longitudinal And Comparative Data Show These Ideas To Be Mostly Illusory.