Going It Alone?: Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity - Couverture rigide

Klett-Davies, Martina

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0754643883 ISBN 13 : 9780754643883

Editeur : Routledge, 2007

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding of lone mothers. Suggestions with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.

Biographie de l'auteur

Martina Klett-Davies is Research Fellow in the Gender Institute and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics, UK. She conducted her graduate and post graduate studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in Germany and her doctoral studies at the London School of Economics in Britain.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0754643883
• ISBN 13: 9780754643883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176