The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety

by Amanda Watson

Who invented the juggling mother, the woman who quietly flicks dried cereal off her blazer while running a corporate empire? The Juggling Mother explores this figure of contemporary mothering in media representations: a typically white, middle-class woman on the verge of coming undone because of her unwieldy slate of labours.

Mothers who frantically juggle paid and unpaid work demands do not threaten the way labour is organized. They...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774864613
• ISBN13: 9780774864619
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 148 Pages