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Author Polakow, Valerie.

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

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.856 P75    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.856 P762L    Check Shelf
Description ix, 222 pages ; 24 cm
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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-211) and index.
Subject Single mothers -- United States.
Poor women -- United States.
Poor children -- United States.
ISBN 0226671836 alkaline paper $22.50
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