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Three major social trends have dramatically affected women in Britain in the post-war period. First, the proportion of the female labour force not leaving employment after marriage (mostly employed in part-time jobs since 1971) has risen sharply; second, the divorce rate has increased; and third, illegitimacy has risen rapidly. These changes have shifted the social construction of motherhood, particularly because divorce and illegitimacy have resulted in a steady rise of the lone-mother family.
Rothman (1994) refers to this process as the ‘commodification of children’ and the ‘proletarianization of motherhood’. These labels imply a deterioration of mothering. Regardless of whether this is correct, these practices involve only a small proportion of the experiences of mothering in contemporary societies. Apart from the physical work of mothering, however, one has to consider the emotional job. It has been argued that this has been expanded (Ehrenreich and English 1979; Cowan 1983; Ferguson 1983; Rothman 1994).
Following Foucault (1981) we can see that reproductive intercourse was actively ‘naturalized’ in the Victorian period and other forms of sexual activity became defined as unnatural. This construction of perversions, with dire warnings about dangers to health that would ensue from following such practices, was linked to the rise of medical and psychological sciences. But the pre-eminence of procreative sex predates the nineteenth century. Christian teaching had long held that sodomy and onanism were sins (although not perversions).