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Promises I can keep : why poor women put motherhood before marriage Kathryn Edin + Maria Kefalas
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Ph HQ 759.45 .E35 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edin, Kathryn, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Unmarried mothers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Low-income single mothers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Low-income single mothers.
- Physical Description:
- 293 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
- Contents:
- "Before we had a baby..."
- "When I got pregnant..."
- How does the dream die?
- What marriage means
- Labor of love
- How motherhood changed my life
- Making sense of single motherhood.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-285) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520241134 (cloth : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 57750836
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