Good Enough Mothering? (eBook, ePUB)

Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
Redaktion: Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134795161
• Artikelnr.: 47888600

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva is Research Fellow and runs the Gender Analysis and Policy Unit in the School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva; Chapter 1 The Transformation of Mothering
Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva; Chapter 2 Deconstructing Motherhood
Carol Smart; Chapter 3 Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
Henrietta L.Moore; Chapter 4 Diversity in Patterns of Parenting and Household Formation
Carolyn Baylies; Chapter 5 Mothers
Workers
Wives
Jane Millar; Chapter 6 Rational Economic Man or Lone Mothers in Context?
Rosalind Edwards
Simon Duncan; Chapter 7 'Parental Responsibility': The Reassertion of Private Patriarchy?
Lorraine M.Fox Harding; Chapter 8 Social Anxieties about Lone Motherhood and Ideologies of the Family
Mary McIntosh; Chapter 9 Debates on Disruption
Louie Burghes; Chapter 10 Social Constructions of Lone Motherhood
Ann Phoenix; Chapter 11 Unpalatable Choices and Inadequate Families
Roseneil Sasha
Kirk Mann;