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Zusatztext 107072382 Informationen zum Autor Petra Bueskens is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Klappentext In Modern Motherhood and Women's Dual Identities , Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as 'individuals' and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter. Zusammenfassung In Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as ‘individuals’ and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: SETTING THE SCENE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1 On mothers and modernity 1.2 Key questions 1.3 Definitions and theoretical framework 1.4 Situating the study and defining the theoretical argument 1.5 Situating the study and defining the empirical research 1.6 Scratching the empirical itch CHAPTER 2: METHODOLOGY 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Establishing the parametres: structure and agency 2.3 Classical sociology: Durkheim, Weber and Marx 2.4 Feminist methodology and epistemology Postmodernism and its discontents Research methodology: structure and agency revisited Theoretical research Situating the self Theory as research Interdisciplinarity 2.8 Empirical research 2.9 Recruitment and interviews 2.10 Interpreting the data 2.11 Conclusions PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL AND THEORETICAL CONTEXT CHAPTER 3: The social and sexual contracts 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The social contract and the birth of ‘the individual’ The philosophers: Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau (deleted) Summarising the social contract 3.5 The ‘sexual contract’ or why women cannot be ‘individuals’ Women’s position in ‘the state of nature’ The emergence of ‘fraternal patriarchy’ Women’s contradictory status in civil society Problems with the category of ‘the individual’ 3.6 Duality theory or on the emergence of sovereign women 3.7 Conclusion CHAPTER 4: The invention of motherhood and the ‘new woman’: 1750-1920 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The traditional family: women’s work and family roles 4.3 Transitions from feudal to industrial society 1600-1750: proto-industrialisation 1600-1750 4.4 Industrialisation 1750-1850: class division and the surge of sentiment 4.5 Working class women and the emergence of wage labour: 1750-1900 4.6 Middle-class women and the ‘invention of motherhood’: 1750-1900 4.7 The ‘New Woman’: shadow to the ‘Angel in the House’ 4.8 ‘Woman Right’ Activists 4.9 New Women at the fin de siecle 4.10 Conclusion CHAPTER 5: What is the new sexual contract? 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Late modernity: the end of ‘society’ and the rise of ‘the social’ 5.3 Individualisation: self-making in late modernity 5.4 Women in late modernity: mapping the contours of freedom and constraint 5.4.1 Education 5.4.2 Employment 5.4.3 Families now 5.4.4 Domestic division of labour 5.5 Deregulated patriarchy and the new sexual contract 5.6 Women’s two modes of self (check heading)
