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The Motherhood Mandate
Abstract
The centrality of motherhood to the definition of the adult female is characterized in the form of a mandate which requires having at least two children and raising them well. The processes mandating motherhood are discussed. A direct attack on the motherhood mandate is seen as basic to eliminating sex‐role stereotypes, mythologies, and sex‐typed behavior. Given the social and cultural forces that propel women into motherhood — either by choice or by chance — a thorough analysis of the purpose of childbearing and childrearing in a changing society is basic to understanding persistence and change in sex‐typed behavior.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Russo, N. F.
- Venue
- Journal of Social Issues
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1976-07
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 143-153
- ISSN
- 0022-4537 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-4560
- OpenAlex
- W2153770018
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 8.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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