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Record Nr.

UNISA996199869503316

Titolo

Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood / / edited by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996

ISBN

1-134-79516-5

1-134-79517-3

0-203-28914-5

1-280-31912-7

0-203-43428-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SilvaElizabeth Bortolaia

Disciplina

306.874/3

306.856

Soggetti

Single mothers

Motherhood

Single mothers - Government policy

Feminism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; The transformation of mothering; Deconstructing motherhood; Mothering and social responsibilities in a cross-cultural perspective; Diversity in patterns of parenting and household formation; Mothers, workers, wives: comparing policy approaches to supporting lone mothers; Rational economic man or lone mothers in context? The uptake of paid work; 'Parental responsibility': the reassertion of private patriarchy?; Social anxieties about lone motherhood and ideologies of the family: two sides of the same coin

Debates on disruption: what happens to the children of lone parentsSocial constructions of lone motherhood: a case of competing discourses; Unpalatable choices and inadequate families: lone mothers and the underclass debate; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An engaging collection of accounts of historial patterns of mothering



and ideologies of the family. Includes cross-national comparisons of policies and experience of lone motherhood in developed and developing countries.