| Description |
ix, 222 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Lives on the edge : single mothers and their children in the other America / Valerie Polakow. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- 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 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Single mothers United States, Poor women United States, Poor children United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-211) and index |
| Subject |
Poor children -- United States.
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Poor women -- United States.
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Single mothers -- United States.
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| LC no. |
92021977 |
| ISBN |
0226671836 (alk. paper) |
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