Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood

Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood /

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996
Subjects:
Single mothers.
Motherhood.
Single mothers > Government policy.
Feminism.
Single mothers > Great Britain.
Mother and child > Great Britain.
Work and family > Great Britain.
Family policy > Great Britain.
Family policy.
Mother and child.
Work and family.
Feminism
Mother-Child Relations
maternity.
feminism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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