Explores the maternal experience from the mother's point of view. The book questions a society that has devalued and sentimentalized motherhood, and presents im

From novels of the nineteenth century to films of the 1990s, American culture, abounds with images of white, middle-class mothers. In Motherhood and Representat

While the image or construct of the "good mother" has been the focus of many research projects, the "bad mother," as a discursive construct, and also mothers wh

Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurtu

Divided into 15 chapters, this book provides the reader with an insight into certain representations of mothers and motherhood in history and today’s societie