Beschreibung:
Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies draws on interviews with 70 women to examine how they negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She makes suggestions regarding paid employment, education and state benefits as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.
List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction, 2 Explaining Lone Motherhood - Academic and Political Discourses in Britain and Germany, 3 Lone Motherhood - Late Modernity and Individualization, 4 The Positioning of Lone Mothers in the British and German Welfare States, 5 Mothering and Paid Employment - Views and Experiences, 6 Creating and Interpreting Meaning - The Use of Type Categories, 7 Pioneers, 8 Copers, 9 Strugglers, 10 Borderliners, 11 Going it Alone? Concluding Discussion, Appendix: The Berlin and London Interviewees, Bibliography, Index