Lives on the edge : single mothers and their children in the other America / Valerie Polakow.

Author/creator Polakow, Valerie
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1993.
Descriptionix, 222 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Childhood revisited -- Motherhood and the ideology of care -- The other motherhood: the landscape of single mothers in poverty -- Young mother's stories: being teenage, black and single -- Mothers' stories: contingency continued -- Inside public preschools: a view from below -- The classroom worlds of at-risk children: five portraits -- Poor children's pedagogy: the construction of at-risk students -- Lives on the edge.
Local noteLittle-290627--305130043660V
Local noteLittle-290628--305130043661W
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 187-211) and index.
LCCN 92021977
ISBN0226671836 (alk. paper) :

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HQ759.45.P66 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold