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UNISA996199869503316 |
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Titolo |
Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood / / edited by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-79516-5 |
1-134-79517-3 |
0-203-28914-5 |
1-280-31912-7 |
0-203-43428-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Single mothers |
Motherhood |
Single mothers - Government policy |
Feminism |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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An engaging collection of accounts of historial patterns of mothering |
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