Missing Voices: the Experience of Motherhood

Name: Missing Voices: the Experience of Motherhood
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ISBN: 9780195533781

ISBN-10: 019553378X

ISBN-13: 9780195533781

Edition: 1994

Authors: Stephanie Brown, Judith Lumley, Rhonda Small, Jill Astbury

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Motherhood is often portrayed as one of the most fulfilling experiences in a woman's life. Books on pregnancy, birth and motherhood not only tell women what they should do, these books also encourage women to have high expectations of what is inevitably a "journey into the unknown". This new book takes a different approach by telling the individual stories of 800 recent mothers. We hear about what happened to them during pregnancy and childbirth, what contributed to good and bad experiences of birth, and what these women thought of the care they received. Ninety of the women went on to participate in interviews two years later. The result is a moving and powerful account of what it is like…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/9/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.50" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Introduction: On believing women



Researching pregnancy, birth, motherhoodand depression



'I didn't want to appear an hysterical female': reflectionson antenatal care



'Something a woman could not and would not forget about':thinking about the birth eight months later



Childbirth classes: making adifference?



Thrown into a new job that you're not really prepared for



One in seven: depression after birth



Giving time to children



Theexperience of motherhood


Missing voices: what women say about depression



The social context of motherhood



Work in the lives of women and men:domestic labour, the care of children, paid employment



Three women'saccounts of motherhood



Shifting the sand: dealing with depression andseeking help


Afterword