| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 241 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Single mothers.
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Single mothers. |
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Motherhood.
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Motherhood. |
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Single mothers -- Government policy.
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Single mothers -- Government policy. |
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Feminism.
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Feminism. |
| Indexed Term |
Single parents |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Motherhood. |
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Feminism. |
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Women's movement. |
| Added Author |
Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Good enough mothering?. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 0415128897 (DLC) 98176425 (OCoLC)35445768 |
| ISBN |
0203289145 (electronic book) |
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9780203289143 (electronic book) |
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0203434285 (electronic book) |
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9780203434284 (electronic book) |
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0203742524 |
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9780203742525 |
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1280319127 |
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9781280319129 |
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0415128897 (Cloth) |
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0415128900 (Paper) |
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9780415128902 |
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