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Marginalised mothers : exploring working-class experiences of parenting

Title
Marginalised mothers : exploring working-class experiences of parenting / Val Gillies.
Author
Gillies, Val.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

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Description
175 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
Drawing on the voices and experiences of the working class mothers who are frequently treated by the tabloids as a threat to civilisation, this book examines how such mothers make sense of their lives with their children and families.
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Subject
  • Low-income mothers > Great Britain > Social conditions
  • Working class women > Great Britain > Social conditions
  • Marginality, Social > Great Britain
  • Marginality, Social
  • Social conditions
  • Working class women > Social conditions
  • Armut
  • Marginalität
  • Mutter
  • Mödrar > sociala förhållanden
  • Låginkomsttagare > sociala förhållanden
  • Great Britain > Social conditions
  • Great Britain
  • Großbritannien
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-170) and index.
Contents
Marginalised mothers : representations and research -- Re-framing class : exploring the dimensions of disadvantage -- Mothering and material struggle -- Class, subjectivity and motherhood -- Challenging from the margins : managing institutional frameworks -- Working-class mothering : strengths and values -- Situating understandings of mothering : issues and implications.
ISBN
  • 041537636X
  • 9780415376365
  • 0415376351
  • 9780415376358
  • 0203966791
  • 9780203966792
LCCN
2006020749
OCLC
  • ocm70199861
  • 70199861
  • SCSB-1420477
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library