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Mothering reshaped: fertility decline, 'the selfishness of women' and the smaller family

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dc.contributor.authorMackinnon, A.
dc.contributor.editorLeahy, C.
dc.contributor.editorBueskens, P.
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractMothering is as subject to social and cultural change as any other phenomenon. When in the late nineteenth century there was a decline in the birth-rate, in Australia there was a rush to explain it. A Royal Commission was set up which concluded that women were to blame: they were limiting births within marriage. A similar decline was observed over much of the western world. Historical demographers set out to explain this transformation noting large forces such as industrialisation, modernisation and secularisation. These left little room for women’s agency. Historians of women are restoring agency to women by exploring the impact of education, the suffrage movement and opportunities for work. All gave women more bargaining power, which they could use to choose smaller families.
dc.identifier.citationSource details - Title: Australian Mothering: Historical and Sociological Perspectives, 2020 / Leahy, C., Bueskens, P. (ed./s), Ch.4, pp.95-110
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-030-20267-5_4
dc.identifier.isbn9783030202675
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11541.2/143142
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeUS
dc.rightsCopyright 2019 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland Access Condition Notes: Accepted manuscript available after 1January 2022
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20267-5_4
dc.subjectAustralian women
dc.subjectbirth-rates
dc.subjectfertility
dc.titleMothering reshaped: fertility decline, 'the selfishness of women' and the smaller family
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished
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