Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family

Name: Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice How Women Are Choosing Parenthood Without Marriage and Creating the New American Family
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ISBN: 9780195179903

ISBN-10: 0195179900

ISBN-13: 9780195179903

Edition: 2006 (Annotated)

Authors: Rosanna Hertz

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A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. In Single By Chance, Mothers By Choice, Rosanna Hertz offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make single parenthood work for them. Hertz interviewed 65 women--ranging from physicians and financial analysts to social workers, teachers, and secretaries--women who speak candidly about how they manage their lives and families as single mothers. What Hertz discovers are not ideologues but reluctant revolutionaries, women who--whether straight or gay--struggle to conform…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.254




The big decision



"Why can't I have what I want?"



Liminality and the courage to change : making the decision to become a single mother



Moving on : when baby makes two



After baby, now what?


Introduction : "where do we fit?"



The father as an idea



Romance, intimacy, and pregnancy : father involvement outside of marriage



Adoption and fitting in


Conclusion : ordinary lives, extraordinary circumstances



Composing a family


Introduction : recycling and reconstituting families



What does single mean?



Downshifting careers while financing motherhood : relying on the gift-giver, the roommate, and the careworker



A world without men, amen?


Conclusion : what does it mean to be a good mother?


Conclusion : Projecting single mothers into the future


Epilogue : completing families, completing lives



Demographic appendix : featured women



Methods and sampling