Mothers' images of children and their implications for maternal response

Ribbens McCarthy, Jane (2003). Mothers' images of children and their implications for maternal response. In: Woodhead, Martin and Montgomery, Heather eds. Understanding Childhood: An Inter-Disciplinary Approach. Milton Keynes: Wiley/Open University, pp. 75–79.

Abstract

An account of mothers' images (or typifications) of what it means to be a Child, based on interviews with mothers with an eldest child aged 7. The typifications underlay much of the mothers daily lives in interaction with their children.

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• 49017
• Item Type
• Book Section
• ISBN
• 0-470-84692-5, 978-0-470-84692-6
• Project Funding Details

• Funded Project Name	Project ID	Funding Body
  Accounting for our Children	Not Set	ESRC

• Extra Information
• This was reprinted from an earlier publication: Julia Brannen and Margaret O'Brien (eds) Childhood and Parenthood: Proceedings of ISA Committee for Family Research, Conference on Children and Families. London: Institute of Education, pp60-78.
• Keywords
• mothers; children; childrearing; images of children; typifications
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Social Policy and Criminology
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
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• © 2003 The Author
• Depositing User
• Jane Ribbens McCarthy