Publisher's Synopsis
This text describes a new model of nurturing that focuses on the interpretive dimensions of mothering activity, locating it within the wider sociological debates concerning modernity and rationality.;Current models of mothering are based on the assumption that infants have biologically determined "needs" that mothers learn to recognize and meet in socially approved ways. Christine Everingham develops an alternative model of nurturing that locates mothers as subjects, actively constructing the perspectives of their child while asserting their own needs and interests in a particular socio-cultural context.
