Lives on the Edge

Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies, Women&, Sociology
Cover of the book Lives on the Edge by Valerie Polakow, University of Chicago Press
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Author: Valerie Polakow ISBN: 9780226219646
Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication: March 28, 1994
Imprint: University of Chicago Press Language: English
Author: Valerie Polakow
ISBN: 9780226219646
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication: March 28, 1994
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Language: English

One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.

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One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.

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