Download or read book The Demands of Motherhood written by L. Smyth and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.