Suzanne Morrissey

Gebundenes Buch

Motherhood, Poverty, and the WIC Program in Urban America

Life Strategies

Beschreibung

This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.

Autor

Suzanne Morrissey is associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies and director of gender studies at Whitman College.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9780739189337
• ISBN-10: 0739189336
• Artikelnr.: 44031389