Homeless mothers : face to face with women and poverty /

Homeless mothers : face to face with women and poverty / Deborah R. Connolly.

This volume follows the lives of mothers that have found themselves homeless and/or impoverished and examines where they fit into the increasingly black-and-white model of motherhood set up by U.S. society. Between the author's and her subject's words, this work maps the territory between...

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Main Author: Connolly, Deborah R., 1969- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Homeless women > Oregon > Case studies.
Homeless families > Oregon > Case studies.
Social service > Oregon > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Kristy : a narrative
  • Motherly things
  • Precarious lives
  • "Patches on the wound" : politics and dynamics at Westside Community Center
  • "Don't feed the alligators" : debating welfare
  • Leaving the field.

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