Images of Childhood in Mothers' Accounts of Contemporary Childrearing

This article examines how a sample of first-time mothers in the UK constitute childhood in general, and their own children in particular, in and through their talk about the mundane practices of child-care. The data analysed are drawn from a longitudinal qualitative interview study which followed a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Murphy, Elizabeth
Format: Article
Published: Sage 2007
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/775/