Good enough mothering? : feminist perspectives on lone motherhood - Silva, Elizabeth Bortolaia (London : Routledge, 1996)
The transformation of mothering / Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva -- Deconstructing motherhood / Carol Smart -- Mothering and social responsibilities in a cross-cultural perspective / Henrietta L. Moore -- Diversity in patterns of parenting and household formation / Carolyn Baylies -- Mothers, workers, wives : comparing policy approaches to supporting lone mothers / Jane Millar -- Rational economic man or lone mothers in context? : the uptake of paid work / Rosalind Edwards and Simon Duncan -- Parental responsibility : the reassertion of private patriarchy? / Lorraine M. Fox Harding -- Social anxieties about lone motherhood and ideologies of the family : two sides of the same coin / Mary McIntosh -- Debates on disruption : what happens to the children of lone parents / Louis Burghes -- Social constructions of lone motherhood : a case of competing discourses / Anne Phoenix -- Unpalatable choices and inadequate families : lone mothers and the underclass debate / Sasha Roseneil and Kirk Mann.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231) and index.
Keywords: Single mothers; Motherhood; Single mothers -- Government policy; Feminism; Single parents