Abstract
In Australia and intemationally, the common discourse describing and explaining paid work and family life and how women organise paid work and care after childbiith, has focu sed on prii1ciples of ' ii1dividual choice ', which are drawn from conventional neo-classical economic the01y. TI1is includes the perception that women have more choice and agency now, than ii1 the past, about theii· paid work and family lifestyle and that they make individual choices.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Theorising and Representing Maternal Realities |
| Editors | Marie Porter, Julie Kelso |
| Place of Publication | U.K. |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars |
| Pages | 136-149 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781847184566 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
