Search Results: Women Confined by Ann Oakley

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Random House, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Schocken Books, 1988-10-31. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Schocken Books, 1980. First Edition with full numberline 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 334 pages From jacket: "This book sets forth the ways in which human reproduction and women as reproducers are socially defined in contemporary culture. Fist the author examines the relationship between the social, psychological and medical factors in the management and context of childbirth. She discusses literature, research and practice in the reproductive field with particular reference to the models of femininity that have dominated it to date. Finding these lacking in explanatory value she then proposes an alternative perspective via an analysis of childbirth as a particular kind of life event. She view this event as a composite with several dimensions, namely: entry to full adult feminine role; status passage form the role of non-mother to that of mother; retirement from the employment sphere; occupational career change; change in physical (bodily) state; entry to… Read More

Martin Robertson & Co Ltd, 1979-11-30. Paperback. Good.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.