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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.874/3; 306.856
• Soggetto topico: Single mothers; Motherhood; Single mothers - Government policy; Feminism
• Altri autori: SilvaElizabeth Bortolaia
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Good enough mothering
• ISBN: 1-134-79516-5; 1-134-79517-3; 0-203-28914-5; 1-280-31912-7; 0-203-43428-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910171000203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II