Research Catalog

Title

A mother's place : taking the debate about working mothers beyond guilt and blame / Susan Chira.

Author

Chira, Susan.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©1998.

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Details

Description

xviii, 318 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"A leading New York Times journalist documents and debunks society's backlash against working mothers and presents a new vision of motherhood." "A Mother's Place, which evolved from a series of frontpage articles that Susan Chira wrote for the New York Times, exposes the distortions that have wrongly convinced many women that "good mothers stay at home." Chira demonstrates how women can challenge the conventional wisdom and strike the balance that best suits them and their children." "Reviewing the latest scientific research, Chira shows that, contrary to popular belief, children of working mothers turn out just as well as those raised by mothers who stay home, and she explains how the media, the courts, and politicians distort this data to suit their own agendas. The reality that most experts have chosen to ignore, Chira argues, is that a mother's happiness and satisfaction have a much more profound effect on her children than whether or not she works."--Jacket.

Subject

• Working mothers > United States
• Motherhood > United States
• Motherhood
• Working mothers
• Werkende vrouwen
• Moederschap
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.

Contents

Prologue -- pt. 1 The Icon of the Good Mother (starting p. 1) -- 1 The Drumbeat (starting p. 3) -- 2 The Good Mother (starting p. 22) -- 3 The Baby Care Bibles (starting p. 45) -- pt. 2 Science Weighs In (starting p. 65) -- 4 The Perils of Psychology (starting p. 67) -- 5 The Day Care Wars (starting p. 88) -- 6 Are You My Mother? (starting p. 121) -- pt. 3 Putting Children First -- Politics, Policy, and the Law (starting p. 143) -- 7 What Do Women Want? (starting p. 145) -- 8 Mothers in the Dock (starting p. 167) -- 9 Courting the Soccer Mom, Hounding the Other Moms (starting p. 192) -- pt. 4 Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century (starting p. 221) -- 10 Fathers and "Other Mothers" (starting p. 223) -- 11 Reimagining Motherhood (starting p. 253) -- Epilogue (starting p. 283) -- Acknowledgments (starting p. 289) -- Notes (starting p. 293) -- Index (starting p. 311)

ISBN

• 0060173270
• 9780060173272

LCCN

97044916

OCLC

• ocm37878735
• 37878735
• SCSB-413066

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library