Encyclopedia

Edited by:
Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc.
- Publication year: 2010
- Online pub date: May 25, 2010
Discipline: Health & Social Care
Subject: Sociology of Gender, Parenting, Maternal Health
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979276
Keywords:
abortion, access to health care, activism, adoption, African American mothers, African Americans, age and aging, alcohol, alpha mom, artificial conception, attitudes, 'bad' mothers, becoming a mother, birth control, birth mothers, birth rate, births, child care, child rearing, childbirth, children in care, cities, civil war, colleges, contraception, daughters, daughters and mothers, death, death rate, developing countries, divorce, earth mothers, eating disorders, educational attainment, emotion, encyclopedia, estimates, ethnic groups, European Union, extended families, family and work, family planning, family values, fathers, feminism, fertility, fertility rate, gender roles, girls, government, gross domestic product, guilt, health, health and well-being, health care, HIV/AIDS, home births, homeschooling, households, human rights, husbands, identity, ideologies, ideology, income, independence, infant mortality, infant mortality rates, infants, infertility, institution of motherhood, issues in motherhood, knowledge, labor, labor force, labor markets, law, lesbianism, life expectancy, literary mama, live birth, marriage, marriage rate, maternal desire, maternal mortality, maternity leave, military mothers, mortality rates, mother blame, Mother Earth, motherhood, motherhood studies, mothering, mothering as work, motherless daughters, mothers, Mother's Day, movement, movements, nation, Native Americans, New York, nursing, organizations, other mothering, parenting, parents, persons, poetry, politics, population, population growth, poverty, pregnancy, pregnant women, prenatal care, psychology, public health, public policy, publications, race, religion, reproduction, reproductive health, republics, rights, sexuality, single mothers, slavery, social change, social policy, social relations, sociology, sons, sons and mothers, status, teaching, The New York Times, theories, total fertility rate, tradition, unions, United Nations, United States, war, wives, women's health, women's rights, work and mothering, working women, World Health Organization, World War II
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In human society, few institutions are as important as motherhood, and this unique encyclopedia captures the interdisciplinary foundation of the subject in one convenient reference. The scope of the Encyclopedia of Motherhood is focused on providing a comprehensive resource to understanding the complexities of motherhood for academic and public libraries, written by scholars and institutional experts in the social and behavioral sciences.

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  O'Reilly, Andrea, ed. Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979276.
  
  O'Reilly, A. ed., 2010. Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979276> [Accessed 1 Oct 2022].
  
  O'Reilly, Andrea, editor. Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2010. SAGE Knowledge, 1 Oct 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412979276.
  
  O'Reilly, Andrea. Encyclopedia of Motherhood Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2010. doi:10.4135/9781412979276
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