Good Enough Mothering? : Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood.
Title:
Good Enough Mothering? : Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood.
Author:
Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia.
ISBN:
9780203434284
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Good Enough Mothering? -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva -- 1. The transformation of mothering: Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva -- 2. Deconstructing motherhood: Carol Smart -- 3. Mothering and social responsibilities in a cross-cultural perspective: Henrietta L. Moore -- 4. Diversity in patterns of parenting and household formation: Carolyn Baylies -- 5. Mothers, workers, wives: comparing policy approaches to supporting lone mothers: Jane Millar -- 6 .Rational economic man or lone mothers in context?: The uptake of work: Rosalind Edwards and Simon Duncan -- 7. 'Parental responsibility': the reassertion of private patriarchy?: Lorraine M. Fox Harding -- 8. Social anxieties about lone motherhood and ideologies of the family: two sides of the same coin: Mary McIntosh -- 9. Debates on disruption: what happens to the children of lone parents: Louie Burghes -- 10. Social constructions of lone motherhood: a case of competing discourses: Ann Phoenix -- 11. Unpalatable choices and inadequate families: lone mothers and the underclass debate: Sasha Roseneil and Kirk Mann -- References -- Index.
Abstract:
Currently, lone mothers and their children make up almost 20 per cent of families with dependent children in the UK, a threefold increase since 1970. Yet, while they are often cited by politicians as both a symptom and cause of social breakdown, relatively little is known of the causes, consequences and conditions of lone motherhood in Britain and throughout Europe. Good Enough Mothering? provides accounts of historical patterns of mothering and ideologies of the family with cross-national comparisons of policies and experience of lone motherhood in developed and developing countries. Countries include: Britain, US, Norway, South Africa, Kenya, Thailand, India, Brazil and the Caribbean. This engaging edited collection will appeal to students of social policy, women's studies and social work.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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