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Going it alone? : lone motherhood in late modernity
- Title
- Going it alone? : lone motherhood in late modernity / Martina Klett-Davies.
- Author
- Klett-Davies, Martina.
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
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- Description
- 166 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? This question and more are explored by the author who focuses on how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. Drawing on interviews with 70 lone mothers who live on state benefits, are unmarried and live in inner city areas, "Going it Alone?" examines the complexity and diversity of their lives; the way in which they try to manage choices and constraints and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. The book assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, developing the concept and providing a better understanding of lone mothers. Recommendations with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as social policy indications for increasing lone mothers' choices.
- Uniform Title
- MyiLibrary.
- Subject
- BMBF-Statusseminar
- Single mothers > Great Britain > Social conditions
- Single mothers > Germany > Social conditions
- Single mothers > Great Britain > Economic conditions
- Single mothers > Germany > Economic conditions
- 71.24 single people
- Single mothers > Economic conditions
- Single mothers > Social conditions
- Alleinerziehende Mutter
- Lebensbedingungen
- Ongehuwde moeders
- Eenoudergezinnen
- Sociaal-economische situatie
- working mother
- one parent family
- family benefit
- living conditions
- labour supply
- mère exerçant un emploi
- famille monoparentale
- prestations familiales
- conditions de vie
- offre de main-d'oeuvre
- trabajadora madre de familia
- hogar con un solo progenitor
- prestaciones familiares
- condiciones de vida
- oferta de mano de obra
- Germany
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Deutschland
- Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
- Duitsland
- Germany
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Allemagne
- Royaume-Uni de Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande du Nord
- Alemania
- Reino Unido de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda del Norte
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-161) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Explaining lone motherhood : academic and political discourses in Britain and Germany -- Lone motherhood : late modernity and individualization -- The positioning of lone mothers in the Britain and German welfare states -- Mothering and paid employment : views and experiences -- Creating and interpreting meaning : the use of type categories -- Pioneers -- Copers -- Strugglers -- Borderliners -- Going it alone? : concluding discussion.
- ISBN
- 9780754643883
- 0754643883
- LCCN
- 2006031577
- OCLC
- ocm71790072
- 71790072
- SCSB-1424545
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library