1st Edition
The Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood Essays from Feminist Economics
288 Pages
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Routledge
284 Pages
by
Routledge
In today’s society, women - having entered the workplace in growing numbers worldwide - are increasingly expected to earn wages whilst still being primarily responsible for raising children. While all parents confront the tensions of this double burden, for lone mothers, the situation can be especially acute as there is no other adult to share responsibilities and no access to a male wage.... Read more
Part 1: Introduction 1. The Dilemmas of Lone Motherhood: Key issues for feminist economics Part 2: Articles 2. How Men Matter: Housework and self-provisioning among rural single-mother and married-couple families in Vermont, US 3. Lone Mothers in Russia: Soviet and post-Soviet policy 4. Welfare Rules, Business Cycles, and Employment Dynamics Among Lone Parents in Norway 5. Family Economy Workers or Caring Mothers?: Male breadwinning and widows' pensions in Norway and the UK 6. The Commodification of Lone Mothers' Labor: A comparison of US and German policies 7. Welfare as We [Don't] Know It: A review and feminist critique of welfare reform research in the United States 8. Mundane Heroines: Conflict, ethnicity, gender, and female headship in Eastern Sri Lanka 9. The Route Matters: Poverty and inequality among lone-mother households in Russia Part 3: Exploration 10. All the Lesbian Mothers are Coupled, All the Single Mothers are Straight, and All of Us are Tired: Reflections on being a single lesbian mom Part 4: Dialogue, Lone Mothers: What is to be done? 11. Introduction 12. What Policies Toward Lone Mothers Should We Aim For? 13. Is Work Worth it for Lone Parents? 14. An Immodest Proposal 15. Who Cares?
Biography
Randy Albelda, Susan Himmelweit, and Jane Humphries are associate editors of the journal Feminist Economics and each has served on the board of the International Association for Feminist Economics. Albelda is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Boston, Himmelweit is Professor of Economics at the Open University, and Humphries is Reader in Economic History at Oxford University and Fellow of All Souls College.
