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Homeless mothers : face to face with women and poverty

Author: Deborah R Connolly
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Does the woman with no money, no home, and no help have any chance at all of being a good mother? This woman's voice, so rarely heard and so often ignored, resonates through this book, which describes the lives of mothers on the margins and asks where they fit in the model set up by our society."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genre/Form: Case studies
Cas, Études de
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Deborah R Connolly
ISBN: 0816632812 9780816632817 0816632820 9780816632824
OCLC Number: 43245828
Description: xxiii, 218 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Other Titles: Face to face with women and poverty
Responsibility: Deborah R. Connolly.

Abstract:

"Does the woman with no money, no home, and no help have any chance at all of being a good mother? This woman's voice, so rarely heard and so often ignored, resonates through this book, which describes the lives of mothers on the margins and asks where they fit in the model set up by our society."--BOOK JACKET.

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