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Narratives of Stay-at-Home Mothers: The Ideology of Intensive Motherhood

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This chapter explores the stories of stay-at-home mothers, which strongly support an intensive mothering ideology that underpins the mother’s ongoing presence as vital for children’s well-being.

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Lim, HJ. (2018). Narratives of Stay-at-Home Mothers: The Ideology of Intensive Motherhood. In: East Asian Mothers in Britain . Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75635-6_4

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