{"id":230,"date":"2026-07-20T14:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2026-09-10T07:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:20:54","slug":"stay-at-home-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/project-strands\/stay-at-home-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay-at-home motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a significant body of scholarship on the rise and fall of \u2018the housewife\u2019 in twentieth-century Britain. In dialogue with this important research, this part of the project aims to historicise the historical origins of \u2018the stay-at-home mother\u2019. In conjunction with archival research, our team has conducted oral history interviews in Manchester and Cheltenham to explore when, where and how the term \u2018stay-at-home mother\u2019 gained currency and whose experiences it captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key research questions include:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How was being a stay-at-home mother perceived as something different from being a housewife, and what might that tell us about the relationship between mothering and domesticity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How does the rise (and fall?) of stay-at-home motherhood complicate our understanding of the history of women and work?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>To what extent was being a stay-a-home mother understand as an experience, rather than an identity?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What generational shifts and insights are revealed within oral history interviews about stay-at-home motherhood?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-1024x664.jpg\" alt=\"A 1970s photograph of a woman stood in her kitchen, holding her baby in one arm whilst making a phone call. The scene appears cosy and domestic. \" class=\"wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-1024x664.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-767x497.jpg 767w, https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-1536x995.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-2048x1327.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SAHM-3-676x438.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image courtesy of Annie Spratt via UnSplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a significant body of scholarship on the rise and fall of \u2018the housewife\u2019 in twentieth-century Britain. In dialogue with this important research, this part of the project aims to historicise the historical origins of \u2018the stay-at-home mother\u2019. In conjunction with archival research, our team has conducted oral history interviews in Manchester and Cheltenham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":228,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":13,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-230","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}