Dilemmas of lone motherhood / edited by Randy Albelda, Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2005Description: 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 041536017X
- 9780415360173
- 0415360188
- 9780415360180
- 306.87432 22
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. The dilemmas of lone motherhood : key issues for feminist economics / Randy Albelda, Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries -- 2. How men matter : housework and self-provisioning among rural single-mother and married-couple families in Vermont, US / Margaret K. Nelson -- 3. Long mothers in Russia : Soviet and post-Soviet policy / Judith Record McKinney -- 4. Welfare rules, business cycles, and employment dynamics among lone parents in Norway / Randi Kjeldstad and Marit Ronsen -- 5. Family economy workers or caring mothers? : male breadwinning and widows' pensions in Norway and the UK / Anne Skevik -- 6. The commodification of lone mothers' labor : a comparison of US and German policies / Lisa Giddings, Irene Dingeldey and Susan Ulbricht -- 7. Welfare as we on't Karen Christopher -- 8. Mundane heroines : conflict, ethnicity, gender, and female headship in Eastern Sri Lanka / Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Jane Humphries -- 9. The route matters : poverty and inequality among lone-mother households in Russia / Shireen Kanji -- 10. All the lesbian mothers are coupled, all the single mothers are straight, and all of us are tired : reflections on being a single lesbian mom / June Lapidus -- 11. Lone mothers : what is to be done? -- I. Introduction / Susan Himmelweit -- II. What policies toward lone mothers should we aim for? / Barbara R. Bergmann -- III. Is work worth it for lone parents? / Kate Green -- IV. An immodest proposal / Randy Albelda / The Women's Committee of One Hundred -- V. Who cares? / Charlotte Koren.
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