Bücher von Tina (Oxford Brookes University) Miller

An accessible analysis of family lives, gender equality and work, examining mothers' and fathers' accounts of negotiating parenting responsibilities and work-place demands. The book will have a broad appeal and relevance to academics, practitioners, students, parents and anyone contemplating parenthood, with the findings informing scholarly work and policy.

As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller presents fascinating narrative accounts of gendered practices, paternal caring and paid work from first-time fathers as they make their journeys into fatherhood.

This 2005 book explores how women try to make sense of, and narrate their experiences of first-time motherhood in the Western world. It charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood and engages with sociological and feminist debates on how selves are constituted, maintained and narrated.