Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 241 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Single mothers. Motherhood. Single mothers -- Government policy. Feminism. Feminism. Motherhood. Single mothers. Single mothers -- Government policy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11120077

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Other authors / contributors:	Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia, editor.
ISBN:	0203289145 9780203289143 0203434285 9780203434284 0203742524 9780203742525 1280319127 9781280319129 9780415128896 0415128897 0415128897 0415128900 9780415128902 9786610319121 661031912X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Good enough mothering?. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415128897

Table of Contents:

The transformation of mothering / Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva
Deconstructing motherhood / Carol Smart
Mothering and social responsibilities in a cross-cultural perspective / Henrietta L. Moore
Diversity in patterns of parenting and household formation / Carolyn Baylies
Mothers, workers, wives : comparing policy approaches to supporting lone mothers / Jane Millar
Rational economic man or lone mothers in context? : the uptake of paid work / Rosalind Edwards and Simon Duncan
Parental responsibility : the reassertion of private patriarchy? / Lorraine M. Fox Harding
Social anxieties about lone motherhood and ideologies of the family : two sides of the same coin / Mary McIntosh
Debates on disruption : what happens to the children of lone parents / Louis Burghes
Social constructions of lone motherhood : a case of competing discourses / Anne Phoenix
Unpalatable choices and inadequate families : lone mothers and the underclass debate / Sasha Roseneil and Kirk Mann.

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