Modern Motherhood and WomenAEs Dual Identities: Rewriting the Sexual Contract (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

Individualisation: self-making in late modernity -- Women in late modernity: mapping the contours of freedom and constraint -- Deregulated patriarchy and the new sexual contract -- Duality theory and women's two modes of self -- The problematic as it stands -- Notes -- References -- Part III -- Empirical research -- 6 Becoming a mother: Revisiting the sexual contract -- Introduction -- Individualised partnering and parenting -- The traditionalisation process and its discontents -- Analysis and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7 Leaving the default position in the home -- Introduction -- Revolving out of the home: maternal transformations -- Revolving into the home: paternal and partner transformations -- Analysis and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 8 Rewriting the sexual contract -- Introduction -- Doubled selves and doubled lives -- Domestic divisions of labour and leisure revisited -- Rewriting the sexual contract: on the democratisation of intimacy -- Analysis and conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part IV -- Conclusion -- 9 Concluding the contract: Women as mothers in the twenty-first century -- Theoretical overview -- Research problematic -- Research findings -- Women in the twenty-first century -- Notes -- References -- Index

• | Author: Petra Bueskens
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: May 31, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 334 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138677426
• | ISBN-13: 9781138677425