Single Mother

The Emergence of the Domestic Intellectual

Szerző: Jane Juffer

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mo...

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Szerző

Jane Juffer

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2006

oldal

267

EAN

9780814742792

ISBN

0814742793

Enbook ID

04931631

Kiadó

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Súly

485

Méretek

153 x 229 x 22

Teljes leírás

Long perceived as the ultimate symbol of social breakdown and sexual irresponsibility, the single mother is now, in the context of welfare-to-work policies, often hailed as the new spokesperson for hard work and self-sufficiency. A dozen years after Dan Quayle denounced the television character Murphy Brown for making the decision to become a single mother "just another lifestyle choice," President George W. Bush applauded single mothers for "heroic work," and positive on-screen representations of single mothers abound, from "The Gilmore Girls" to "Sex and the City" to "American Idol". "Single Mother" describes the recent cultural valorization of this figure that - in the midst of demographic changes in the U.S. - has emerged as the unlikely heroic and seductive voice of the new American family. Drawing on her own life as a single mother, interviews with dozens of other single mothers, cultural representations, and policies on welfare, immigration, childcare, and child custody, Juffer analyzes this contingent acceptance of single mothers. Finally, critiquing the relentless emphasis on self-sufficiency to the exclusion of community, Juffer shows the remarkable organizing skills of these new mothers of invention. At a moment when one-third of all babies are born to single moms, "Single Mother" is a fascinating and necessary examination of these new "domestic intellectuals."

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