Middle-class Mothers' Moralities and 'Concerted Cultivation': Class Others, Ambivalence and Excess

Sociology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 655-670

  Perrier, Maud ^a  

^a University of Bristol   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ambivalence; concerted cultivation; middle class; morality; mothering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881239228     PISSN: 00380385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0038038512453789     Document Type: Article

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