Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One -- Prologue -- 1. Childhood Revisited -- 2. Motherhood and the Ideology of Care -- Part Two -- Prologue -- 3. The Other Motherhood: The Landscape of Single Mothers in Poverty -- 4. Young Mothers' Stories: Being Teenage, Black, and Single -- 5. Mothers' Stories: Contingency Continued -- Part Three -- Prologue -- 6. Inside Public Preschools: A View from Below -- 7. The Classroom Worlds of At-Risk Children: Five Portraits -- 8. Poor Children's Pedagogy: The Construction of At-Risk Students -- 9. Lives on the Edge |
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Afterword: Some Reflections on the Future -- Appendix: Some Notes on Method -- Notes -- Index |
Summary |
One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and ""infantilization"" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an infor |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-211) and index |
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Print version record |
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Single mothers -- United States.
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Poor children -- United States
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Poor women -- United States
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Single parents.
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Women.
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Poverty.
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Single Parent
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Poverty
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Women
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women (female humans)
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poverty.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Women
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Single parents
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Poor children
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Poor women
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Single mothers
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Alleinerziehende Mutter
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Armut
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Alleenstaanden.
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Moeders.
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Kinderen.
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Armen (personen)
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famille monoparentale -- femme -- Etats-Unis.
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enfant -- femme seule -- pauvreté -- Etats-Unis.
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780226219646 |
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022621964X |
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