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Going it alone? : lone motherhood in late modernity
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- Creator
- Martina Klett-Davies
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780754643883, 0754643883
- OCLC
- ocm71790072
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-161) and index.
- Introduction -- Explaining lone motherhood : academic and political discourses in Britain and Germany -- Lone motherhood : late modernity and individualization -- The positioning of lone mothers in the Britain and German welfare states -- Mothering and paid employment : views and experiences -- Creating and interpreting meaning : the use of type categories -- Pioneers -- Copers -- Strugglers -- Borderliners -- Going it alone? : concluding discussion