Still a Mother : Noncustodial Mothers, Gendered Institutions, and Social Change /

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"Still a Mother is about the experiences of noncustodial mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. The author argues that these noncustodial experiences should be understood in the greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Krasas, Jackie, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social institutions
Motherhood
Absentee mothers
Social institutions > United States.
Custody of children > Social aspects > United States.
Motherhood > United States.
Absentee mothers > United States.
United States
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Still a Mother is about the experiences of noncustodial mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner. The author argues that these noncustodial experiences should be understood in the greater web of gendered social institutions such as employment, education, health care, and legal institutions that shape the meanings of contemporary experiences of motherhood in the United States."--
Physical Description:1 online resource (228 pages).
ISBN:9781501754319

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