Mothers
Jacqueline Rose, 19 June 2014
The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women
by Elisabeth Badinter, translated by Adriana Hunter.
Picador, 224 pp., £10.99, June 2013,978 1 250 03209 6 Show More
by Elisabeth Badinter, translated by Adriana Hunter.
Picador, 224 pp., £10.99, June 2013,
Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel.
Jonathan Cape, 304 pp., £16.99, May 2012,978 0 224 09352 1 Show More
by Alison Bechdel.
Jonathan Cape, 304 pp., £16.99, May 2012,
A Child of One’s Own: Parental Stories
by Rachel Bowlby.
Oxford, 256 pp., £20, June 2013,978 0 19 960794 5 Show More
by Rachel Bowlby.
Oxford, 256 pp., £20, June 2013,
Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome
by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell.
Texas, 274 pp., £16.99, April 2013,978 0 292 75434 8 Show More
by Lauren Hackworth Petersen and Patricia Salzman-Mitchell.
Texas, 274 pp., £16.99, April 2013,
Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in 20th-Century England
by Pat Thane and Tanya Evans.
Oxford, 240 pp., £24.99, August 2013,978 0 19 968198 3 Show More
by Pat Thane and Tanya Evans.
Oxford, 240 pp., £24.99, August 2013,
I Don’t Know Why She Bothers: Guilt-Free Motherhood for Thoroughly Modern Womanhood
by Daisy Waugh.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £12.99, July 2013,978 0 297 86876 7 Show More
by Daisy Waugh.
Weidenfeld, 240 pp., £12.99, July 2013,
“... who had deliberately got herself pregnant in order to claim benefits, although as Pat Thane and Tanya Evans point out in Sinners? Scroungers? Saints?, their study of 20th-century unmarried motherhood, she was ‘very rarely to be found’. Over the past century, single mothers have variously been accorded one or other, or all three, of those ... ”
