UID:
almafu_9958106113402883
Umfang:
1 online resource (252 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-79516-5
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1-134-79517-3
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0-203-28914-5
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1-280-31912-7
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0-203-43428-5
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; The transformation of mothering; Deconstructing motherhood; Mothering and social responsibilities in a cross-cultural perspective; Diversity in patterns of parenting and household formation; Mothers, workers, wives: comparing policy approaches to supporting lone mothers; Rational economic man or lone mothers in context? The uptake of paid work; 'Parental responsibility': the reassertion of private patriarchy?; Social anxieties about lone motherhood and ideologies of the family: two sides of the same coin
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Debates on disruption: what happens to the children of lone parentsSocial constructions of lone motherhood: a case of competing discourses; Unpalatable choices and inadequate families: lone mothers and the underclass debate; References; Index;
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-12890-0
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-12889-7
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203434284
