Becoming an Unwed Mother A Sociological Account

Name: Becoming an Unwed Mother A Sociological Account
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ISBN: 9780202309552

ISBN-10: 020230955X

ISBN-13: 9780202309552

Edition: 2007

Authors: Prudence Mors Rains, Prudence Rains

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Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers; they use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance. Based largely on observation of middle-class white girls in a psychiatrically oriented maternity home and lower-class black teenagers in a day school for unwed mothers, the study focuses on the unwed mother's moral career as it is shaped by social agencies. The author shows how these agencies operate to reconstruct…

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 218
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Situation of Moral Jeopardy



Sexual Careers



Becoming an Unwed Mother



The Process of Moral Reinstatement



Hawthorne House



The Moral Career of the Unwed Mother



Accommodations to Illegitimacy



The Project



The Moral Career of the Negro Unwed Mother



Speculations: The Politics of Illegitimacy



Methods


Bibliography


Index