Val Gillies

Marginalised Mothers

Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing a detailed insight into the lived experience of mothers who are so often the focus of public concern and intervention, Val Gillies focuses specifically on these working class mothers and their opportunities and choices, challenging common assumptions about 'good parenting'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780415376365
• ISBN-10: 041537636X
• Artikelnr.: 22336415

Autorenporträt

Val Gillies is a Senior Research Fellow in the Families and Social Capital Group at London South Bank University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Marginalised Mothers: Representations and Research 2. Re-Framing Class:
Exploring the Dimensions of Disadvantage 3. Mothering and Material Struggle
4. Class, Subjectivity and Motherhood 5. Challenging from the Margins:
Managing Institutional Frameworks 6. Working Class Mothering: Strengths and
Values 7. Situating Understandings of Mothering: Issues and Implications