Homeless Mothers: Face to Face With Women and Poverty - Rilegato

Connolly, Deborah R.

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ISBN 10: 0816632812 ISBN 13: 9780816632817

Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Would a good mother sleep with her children in a car parked on a city street in the dead of winter? Would a good mother send her child to school in shoes two sizes too big because that's all she could find? Would a good mother tell her child to shut up and behave or the whole family will be out on the street again? Does the woman with no money, no home, and no help have any chance at all of being a good mother, according to the model our society sets up? This is the woman whose voice, so rarely heard and so often ignored, resonates through this book, which follows the lives of mothers on the margins and asks where they fit in our increasingly black-and-white picture of the world.At once an anthropologist in the field and a social worker on the job, Deborah R. Connolly is ideally placed to draw out these women's life stories, the stories that our culture tells about them, and the revealing contradictions between the two. In their own words, by turns awkward and eloquent, poignant and harsh, these homeless mothers map the perilous territory between the promise of childhood and the hard reality of motherhood on the street, between "We're never gonna get married, we're never gonna have kids" and "God, how did we end up like this?" What emerges from these stories is a glimpse of the cultural imagination of class and gender as it revolves around the lives of mostly white homeless mothers. Attending to both everyday lives and cultural norms, while exploring and interpreting their interdependencies and tensions, Connolly makes these mothers and their plight as real for us as the headlines and stereotypes and the cultural paranoia that so often displace them and consign them to silence.

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Madri Homeless: faccia a faccia con le donne e sarebbe la povertà un buon sonno madre con i suoi figli in una macchina parcheggiata su una strada cittadina in pieno inverno? Sarebbe una buona madre mandare suo figlio a scuola nei panni di due taglie troppo grande perché è tutto quello che riusciva a trovare? Sarebbe una buona madre dire a suo figlio di stare zitto e si comportano o l'intera famiglia sarà in strada di nuovo? Non la donna, senza soldi, senza casa, e nessun aiuto avere qualche possibilità a tutti di essere ... Descrizione completa

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Minnesota Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0816632812
• ISBN 13: 9780816632817
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 218
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile