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Author Polakow, Valerie, author

Title Lives on the edge : single mothers and their children in the other America / Valerie Polakow
Edition Paperback edition
Published Chicago [Illinois] ; London [England] : The University of Chicago Press, 1994
©1993

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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
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
Notes Print version record
Subject Single mothers -- United States.
Poor children -- United States
Poor women -- United States
Single parents.
Women.
Poverty.
Single Parent
Poverty
Women
women (female humans)
poverty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Women
Single parents
Poor children
Poor women
Single mothers
Alleinerziehende Mutter
Armut
Alleenstaanden.
Moeders.
Kinderen.
Armen (personen)
famille monoparentale -- femme -- Etats-Unis.
enfant -- femme seule -- pauvreté -- Etats-Unis.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226219646
022621964X