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Good Enough Mothering?: Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood

By Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1996
ISBN
9780415128896, 0415128897, 0415128900, 9780415128902, 9780203289143
LCC
HQ759.915 .G665 1996
Open Library ID
OL458929M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2399045 bytes)
Pages
256\252
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Sociology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Critical ThinkingFeminismGender StudiesLiterary CriticismLiterary TheoryMothering,

Description

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.

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