Modern Motherhood and Women’s Dual Identities - Rewriting the Sexual Contract - Petra (Australian College of Applied Psychology Bueskens

In Modern Motherhood and Women¿s Dual Identities, Petra Bueskens argues that western modernisation consigned women to the home and released them from it in historically unprecedented, yet interconnected, ways. Her ground-breaking formulation is that western women are free as `individuals¿ and constrained as mothers, with the twist that it is the former that produces the latter.