Mothers and daughters : living, loving, and learning over a lifetime /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Degges-White, Suzanne
Other Authors: Borzumato-Gainey, Christine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Becoming a mother : biology influences culture
  • The social and cultural aspects of motherhood
  • Predictable mother-daughter challenges over the life course
  • Learning to be a mother : the earliest years
  • The honeymoon years : daughters in early childhood
  • Living in the hood : teenage-hood
  • Mothering adult daughters : the gift of friendship
  • The cycle begins again : daughters becoming mothers
  • And the cycle recycles : daughters becoming caregivers
  • Sex and sexuality : what do mothers teach?
  • Lessons on parental separation and divorce
  • Social support : your friends and (extended) family network
  • Do mothers influence what we want to be when we grow up?
  • Lessons in economics and finance
  • Shaping a daughter's identity
  • Learning the maternal role within cultural perspectives
  • Attitude and gratitude.