Women as mothers
A leading social anthropologist examines what being a mother means to a woman as a person , using examples from societies all over the world, and concludes that a great deal of what we call “maternal instinct” is culturally imposed and that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of mothering. -- Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©1978
1st American ed View all formats and editions
Random House, New York, ©1978
x, 239 pages ; 22 cm
9780394506517, 0394506510
5101758
Mothercraft or motherhood?
The motherhood trap
Mothers in the social system
Getting and not getting pregnant
Childbirth
a social act
Ritual and technology in contemporary hospital childbirth
Bonding, loving and learning
Learning to be a mother
Grandmothers
Women as polluters and creators
The changing face of motherhood
A world fit for mothers?