Lives on the Edge : Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0226671844
ISBN-13
9780226671840
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Imprint
University of Chicago Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 28th, 1994
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
340 grams
Dimensions
2.30 x 1.70 x 0.10 cms
Product Classification:
Poverty & unemploymentGender studies: womenSociology: family & relationships
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One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.
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