Dilemmas of lone motherhood /
edited by Randy Albelda, Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries.
- 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The dilemmas of lone motherhood : key issues for feminist economics / How men matter : housework and self-provisioning among rural single-mother and married-couple families in Vermont, US / Long mothers in Russia : Soviet and post-Soviet policy / Welfare rules, business cycles, and employment dynamics among lone parents in Norway / Family economy workers or caring mothers? : male breadwinning and widows' pensions in Norway and the UK / The commodification of lone mothers' labor : a comparison of US and German policies / Welfare as we Mundane heroines : conflict, ethnicity, gender, and female headship in Eastern Sri Lanka / The route matters : poverty and inequality among lone-mother households in Russia / 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 / Lone mothers : what is to be done? -- Introduction / What policies toward lone mothers should we aim for? / Is work worth it for lone parents? / An immodest proposal / Who cares? / Randy Albelda, Susan Himmelweit and Jane Humphries -- Margaret K. Nelson -- Judith Record McKinney -- Randi Kjeldstad and Marit Ronsen -- Anne Skevik -- Lisa Giddings, Irene Dingeldey and Susan Ulbricht -- Karen Christopher -- Kanchana N. Ruwanpura and Jane Humphries -- Shireen Kanji -- June Lapidus -- Susan Himmelweit -- Barbara R. Bergmann -- Kate Green -- Randy Albelda / The Women's Committee of One Hundred -- Charlotte Koren. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. I. II. III. IV. V.
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Single mothers Single mothers--Economic conditions Single mothers--Social conditions