| Motherhood, Absence and Transition: When Adult Children Leave Home Contributor(s): Green, Trish (Author) |
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ISBN: 0754677338 ISBN-13: 9780754677338 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Parenting - Motherhood - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 306.874 |
| LCCN: 2009047203 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 194 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focused on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving. The book makes clear how the mother's experience of separation is silenced, first by the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood per se, second by the privileging of the child's transition to adulthood, and third by a neglect of the relational dimension of this particular life-course transition. In doing so the book makes an important contribution to debates on ageing, identity and the life-course, and will be of great interest to sociologists with various academic interests. |
