Going it Alone?
Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity
Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding…
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- ISBN: 978-1-317-12619-5
- EAN: 9781317126195
- Produktnummer: 24380450
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'222 KB
Über den Autor
Martina Klett-Davies is Research Fellow in the Gender Institute and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics, UK. She conducted her graduate and post graduate studies at the Freie Universitÿt Berlin in Germany and her doctoral studies at the London School of Economics in Britain.
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