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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Single mothers.

Motherhood.

Single mothers--Government policy.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-134-79516-5

1-134-79517-3

0-203-28914-5

1-280-31912-7

0-203-43428-5

9780203434284

OCLC:

171117314