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Unhappy mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain

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In the decades following the Second World War, mothers’ experiences of loneliness, boredom and unhappiness were increasingly widely acknowledged. The language of postnatal depression came to be attached to this, but mothers organised around their own discontent in ways that challenged the medical mo...

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ISBN: 9781526140128
Published: Manchester University Press, Manchester 2025
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