A Child on Her Mind: The Experience of Becoming a Mother
by Vangie Bergum
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Stories of women who mother are central to this book. The women come to mothering through birth and adoption, as birth mothers, placing mothers, adopting mothers and teen mothers. Woven between the women's narratives, the author offers reflective commentary intended to show the mothering experience in its complexity_bodily, culturally, and as the rootbed of relationship. Using phenomenological research, Bergum brings the mothering experience to light_as it is lived_exploring themes of love show more and pain, responsibility, belonging, choice, transformation, and quickening of the moral impulse to attend to the child. Bergum's intent is to encourage thoughtful reflection about what is learned through mothering_by women and by society_in order to create and sustain a society that is good for children and the women who mother them. show lessTags
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- 306.874 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Marriage, partnerships, unions; family Intrafamily relationships Parent-child relationship
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- HQ759 .B464 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home Parents. Parenthood
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