Unhappy mothers
Women, motherhood and social change in postwar Britain
By Sarah Crook
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- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 248
- Price: £25.00
- Published Date: July 2025
- Series: Social Histories of Medicine
Description
In the decades following the Second World War, mothers' experiences of loneliness, boredom and unhappiness were increasingly widely acknowledged. The language of postnatal depression came to be attached to this, but mothers organised around their own discontent in ways that challenged the medical model. Unhappy mothers draws attention to the social, political, and professional contexts within which knowledge about unhappy mothering developed. Drawing upon an extensive range of archival material, the book addresses themes around expertise, feminism, and the value given to lived experience.
Contents
Introduction
1 Mothers, general practitioners, and the NHS
2 Health visitors and the worlds of new mothers
3 Expertise and experience: mothers' self-help
4 The Women's Liberation Movement and mothers' discontent
5 Feminist sociology, research, and visibility
Conclusion
Author
Sarah Crook is a Senior Lecturer in History at Swansea University
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