Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Through My Own Eyes : Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty / Bruce Fuller, Marylee F. Rambaud, Susan D. Holloway, Costanza Eggers-Piérola.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: 2001Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9780674038745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.82/94/0974461
LOC classification:
  • HV99
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Empowering Strangers -- 2 Fourteen Poor Women, Fourteen Rich Lives -- 3 Motherhood in Poverty -- 4 Conceptions of Children’s Behavior -- 5 Cultural Models of Child Rearing -- 6 Discipline and Obedience -- 7 Cultural Models of Education -- 8 Negotiating Child Care and Welfare -- 9 Teachers’ Views of Preschool -- 10 Lessons from Listening: Strengthening Family Policy -- Notes -- Index
Summary: Shirl is a single mother who urges her son's baby-sitter to swat him when he misbehaves. Helena went back to work to get off welfare, then quit to be with her small daughter. Kathy was making good money but got into cocaine and had to give up her two-year-old son during her rehabilitation. Pundits, politicians, and social critics have plenty to say about such women and their behavior. But in this book, for the first time, we hear what these women have to say for themselves. An eye-opening--and heart-rending--account from the front lines of poverty, Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single mothers with the slimmest of resources manage from day to day. We witness their struggles to balance work and motherhood and watch as they negotiate a bewildering maze of child-care and social agencies. For three years the authors followed the lives of fourteen women from poor Boston neighborhoods, all of whom had young children and had been receiving welfare intermittently. We learn how these women keep their families on firm footing and try--frequently in vain--to gain ground. We hear how they find child-care and what they expect from it, as well as what the childcare providers have to say about serving low-income families. Holloway and Fuller view these lives in the context of family policy issues touching on the disintegration of inner cities, welfare reform, early childhood and "pro-choice" poverty programs.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674038745

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Empowering Strangers -- 2 Fourteen Poor Women, Fourteen Rich Lives -- 3 Motherhood in Poverty -- 4 Conceptions of Children’s Behavior -- 5 Cultural Models of Child Rearing -- 6 Discipline and Obedience -- 7 Cultural Models of Education -- 8 Negotiating Child Care and Welfare -- 9 Teachers’ Views of Preschool -- 10 Lessons from Listening: Strengthening Family Policy -- Notes -- Index

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

Shirl is a single mother who urges her son's baby-sitter to swat him when he misbehaves. Helena went back to work to get off welfare, then quit to be with her small daughter. Kathy was making good money but got into cocaine and had to give up her two-year-old son during her rehabilitation. Pundits, politicians, and social critics have plenty to say about such women and their behavior. But in this book, for the first time, we hear what these women have to say for themselves. An eye-opening--and heart-rending--account from the front lines of poverty, Through My Own Eyes offers a firsthand look at how single mothers with the slimmest of resources manage from day to day. We witness their struggles to balance work and motherhood and watch as they negotiate a bewildering maze of child-care and social agencies. For three years the authors followed the lives of fourteen women from poor Boston neighborhoods, all of whom had young children and had been receiving welfare intermittently. We learn how these women keep their families on firm footing and try--frequently in vain--to gain ground. We hear how they find child-care and what they expect from it, as well as what the childcare providers have to say about serving low-income families. Holloway and Fuller view these lives in the context of family policy issues touching on the disintegration of inner cities, welfare reform, early childhood and "pro-choice" poverty programs.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)