Title The social economy of single motherhood : raising children in rural America / Margaret K. Nelson.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 253 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Perspectives on gender
	Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-245) and index.
Contents	Introduction -- The context of single mothers' lives -- Negotiating reciprocity -- Accounting for welfare -- Building and rebuilding the family -- Falling in love (again) -- Conclusion.
Summary	Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.
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Subject	Single mothers -- United States -- Social conditions.
	Single mothers.
	United States.
	Social conditions.
	Single mothers -- United States -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
	Welfare recipients -- United States.
	Welfare recipients.
	Rural families -- United States.
	Rural families.
	Sociology, Rural -- United States.
	Sociology, Rural.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Nelson, Margaret K., 1944- Social economy of single motherhood 0415947774 (DLC) 2005016474 (OCoLC)60605223
ISBN	9781317793731 (electronic book)
	1317793730 (electronic book)
	0415947774
	9780415947770
	0415947782
	9780415947787