Lives on the edge : single mothers and their children in the other America
Print Book, English, 1994
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University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1994
ix, 222 p. ; 24 cm.
9780226671833, 9780226671840, 0226671836, 0226671844
1023919396
Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Childhood Revisited 2: Motherhood and the Ideology of Care 3: The Other Motherhood: The Landscape of Single Mothers in Poverty 4: Young Mothers' Stories: Being Teenage, Black, and Single 5: Mothers' Stories: Contingency Continued 6: Inside Public Preschools: A View from Below 7: The Classroom Worlds of At-Risk Children: Five Portraits 8: Poor Children's Pedagogy: The Construction of At-Risk Students 9: Lives on the Edge Afterword: Some Reflections on the Future Appendix: Some Notes on Method Notes Index