Sage Publications published the book in January 2001. The Wake Forest sociology department will host a book signing and reception at 3 p.m. Jan. 31 in the Z. Smith Reynolds Library's Johnson Room. The public is invited. A lot of women feel that they are the only ones doing it this way. So this is a way of validating multiple options for balancing work and family.
Conformists believe that the only way to be a good mother is to stay at home.
War II America, Hattery said. Although moms were often home with their children before then, they were not able to devote themselves primarily to childrearing. The conformists are likely to stay at home even when this requires tremendous financial sacrifice. The non-conformists reject the intensive motherhood ideology, believing that they can work and still be good mothers. They feel a responsibility to provide economically for the family, feel entitled to pursue their own career interests and believe professional childcare benefits their children.