1st Edition
Marginalised Mothers Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting
By Val Gillies
Copyright 2007
192 Pages
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Routledge
182 Pages
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Routledge
384 Pages
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Routledge
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Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.
Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the... Read more
1. Marginalised Mothers: Representations and Research 2. Re-Framing Class: Exploring the Dimensions of Disadvantage 3. Mothering and Material Struggle 4. Class, Subjectivity and Motherhood 5. Challenging from the Margins: Managing Institutional Frameworks 6. Working Class Mothering: Strengths and Values 7. Situating Understandings of Mothering: Issues and Implications
Biography
Val Gillies is a Senior Research Fellow in the Families and Social Capital Group at London South Bank University.
