Mothers who leave : behind the myth of women without their children / Rosie Jackson.

  • Jackson, Rosemary
Date:
[1994]
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Description

In Britain as estimated 100,000 women live without their children ; in the United States at least half a million. Yet mothers who've left are still thought of as unnatural, deviant, even immoral.

Publication/Creation

London : Pandora, [1994]

Physical description

333 pages ; 22 cm

Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-320) and index.

Contents

Icons of good mothering -- and what happens to women who break them -- Out of the doll's house -- the politics of leaving -- The mother's point of view -- Inside story -- making the unconscious conscious.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.
Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Be

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    Medical Collection
    HQ759.5 1994J13m
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ISBN

  • 0044408994
  • 9780044408994