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They're All My Children : Foster Mothering in America.
The first book on foster care written from foster mothers' perspectives, They're All My Children voices the often painful experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state. Drawing on extensi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 Portrait of a Foster Mother (1): "They're All MyChildren, They're All My Family"; 3 Mothers and Workers: Becoming a Foster Mother; 4 "I'm Their Mother": Fostering, Motherhood, andthe Construction of Kinship; 5 Managing Difference, Coping with Delegitimation:Foster Mothers as Nonmothers; 6 Mothering Work and the Art of Fostering; 7 Familial Changes: Integrating Foster Children intothe Foster Family; 8 "They Picked Up the Baby and the Baby Was Gone":Mothering and Loss; 9 Portrait of a Foster Mother (2): Motherhood, Loss, and Social Action.
- 10 "I Wanna Make It through the Week"11 Conclusion; Appendix: About This Study; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.