Motherblame
Anna Vaux: Motherhood, 21 May 1998
Bad Mothers: The Politics of Blame in 20th-Century America
edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky.
New York, 416 pp., £16, April 1998,0 8147 5119 9 Show More
edited by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky.
New York, 416 pp., £16, April 1998,
Madonna and Child: Towards a New Politics of Motherhood
by Melissa Benn.
Cape, 288 pp., £12.99, January 1998,0 224 03821 4 Show More
by Melissa Benn.
Cape, 288 pp., £12.99, January 1998,
“... not very likely that you and your mother will agree on this. Fashions in mothering change, as Molly Ladd-Taylor and Lauri Umansky point out. Even within a given era, the experts do not agree – about breastfeeding, about solids, about sleeping habits. Americans are divided on whether mothers should stay at home with their children and on whether a ... ”
