(DOWNLOAD) "Motherhood, Absence and Transition" by Trish Green # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Motherhood, Absence and Transition
- Author : Trish Green
- Release Date : January 15, 2016
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 30034 KB
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.