Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

Name: Lives on the Edge Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
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ISBN: 9780226671840

ISBN-10: 0226671844

ISBN-13: 9780226671840

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Authors: Valerie Polakow

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One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its…

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List price: $22.50
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Childhood Revisited



Motherhood and the Ideology of Care



The Other Motherhood: The Landscape of Single Mothers in Poverty



Young Mothers' Stories: Being Teenage, Black, and Single



Mothers' Stories: Contingency Continued



Inside Public Preschools: A View from Below



The Classroom Worlds of At-Risk Children: Five Portraits



Poor Children's Pedagogy: The Construction of At-Risk Students



Lives on the Edge Afterword: Some Reflections on the Future


Appendix: Some Notes on Method


Notes


Index