To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sharon Hays’ landmark book, The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, this collection will revisit Hays’ concept

Working mothers today confront not only conflicting demands on their time and energy but also conflicting ideas about how they are to behave: they must be nurtu

The contributing authors in this anthology address diverse topics in mothering and social media, including framing of stepmothers in online forums, mothering in

Why do women in contemporary western societies experience contradiction between their autonomous and maternal selves? What are the origins of this contradiction