Going it Alone?

Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-26678-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klett-Davies, Martina

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Explaining Lone Motherhood – Academic and Political Discourses in Britain and Germany, 3 Lone Motherhood – Late Modernity and Individualization, 4 The Positioning of Lone Mothers in the British and German Welfare States, 5 Mothering and Paid Employment – Views and Experiences, 6 Creating and Interpreting Meaning – The Use of Type Categories, 7 Pioneers, 8 Copers, 9 Strugglers, 10 Borderliners, 11 Going it Alone? Concluding Discussion, Appendix: The Berlin and London Interviewees, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.