The social economy of single motherhood : raising children in rural America / Margaret K. Nelson.

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Nelson, Margaret K, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Perspectives on gender (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xi, 253 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781317793731
1317793730
9781315810836
1315810832
0415947782
9780415947787

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Social economy of single motherhoodDDC classification:

306.874/32/0973091734 22

LOC classification:

HQ759.915 .N46 2005eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- The context of single mothers' lives -- Negotiating reciprocity -- Accounting for welfare -- Building and rebuilding the family -- Falling in love (again) -- Conclusion.

Summary: Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-245) and index.

Introduction -- The context of single mothers' lives -- Negotiating reciprocity -- Accounting for welfare -- Building and rebuilding the family -- Falling in love (again) -- Conclusion.

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Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.

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