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In this chapter, we will explore the diverse ways in which women understand the ageing process in relation to pregnancy and parenthood. We will use as a foil for this analysis social clock theory (Neugarten, Moore and Lowe, 1965; Neugarten, 1979, 1996), the idea that individuals make judgements about the timing of life transitions by calibrating them against temporal social norms.
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© 2001 Bob Heyman and Mette Henriksen
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Heyman, B., Henriksen, M. (2001). Age and Pregnancy. In: Campling, J. (eds) Risk, Age and Pregnancy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333985434_3
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