Silva Good Enough Mothering?

Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-79517-8
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 252 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Krankenpflege
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Good Enough Mothering? Editor's Introduction Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 2. The Transformation of Mothering Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva 3. Deconstructing Motherhood Carol Smart 4. Mothering and Social Responsibilities in a Cross-Cultural Perspective Henrietta L. Moore 5. Diversity in Patterns of Parenting and Household Formation Carolyn Baylis 6. Mothers, Workers or Wives? Policy approaches to supporting lone mothers in comparative perspective Jane Millar 7. Rational Economic Man or Lone Mothers in Context? The uptake of paid work Rosalind Edwards and Simon Duncan 8. Parental Responsibility: The reassertion of private patriachy? Lorraine M. Fox Harding 9. Social Anxieties About Lone Motherhood and Ideologies of the Family: Two sides of the same coin Mary McIntosh 10. Debates on Disruption: What happens to the children of lone parents? Louie Burghes 11. Social Constructions of Lone Motherhood: A case of competing discourses Ann Phoenix 12. Unpalatable Choices and Inadequate Families: Lone mothers and the underclass debate Sasha Roseneil and Kirk Mann