Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice is the first book to provide an intimate portrait of women who have chosen to become single mothers. Drawing on in-depth personal interviews, Hertz follows individual women as they make the psychological break with traditional expectations and identify specific paths to motherhood. These routes include using known and anonymous donors, adoption, and chancing pregnancy. A candid portrayal of the new single motherhood, the book reveals how women are recreating our notions of family, and the pitfalls single parents continue to face.
Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice is the first book to provide an intimate portrait of women who have chosen to become single mothers. Drawing on in-depth personal interviews, Hertz follows individual women as they make the psychological break with traditional expectations and identify specific paths to motherhood. These routes include using known and anonymous donors, adoption, and chancing pregnancy. A candid portrayal of the new single motherhood, the book reveals how women are recreating our notions of family, and the pitfalls single parents continue to face.
Rosanna Hertz is Luella LaMer Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies and Chair of the Women's Studies Department at Wellesley College. The author of the widely acclaimed More Equal Than Others , she is frequently interviewed by national print media on issues related to women, work, and the family.
Inhaltsangabe
* I. Prologue * II. Acknowledgements * III. Introduction * IV. Part I * Chapter 1: Why Cant I have What I Want? * Chapter 2: Liminality and the Courage to Change: Making the Decision to Become a Single Mother * Chapter 3: Moving On: When Baby Makes Two * V. Part II * Part II Introduction * Chapter 4: The Father As An Idea * Chapter 5: Romance, Intimacy and Pregnancy: Father Involvement of Marriage" * Chapter 6: Adoption and Fitting In * Part II Conclusion * VI. Part III * Part III Introduction: Recycling and Reconstituting Families * Chapter 7: What Does Single Mean? * Chapter 8: Downshifting Careers While Financing Motherhood: Relying on the Gift-Giver, the Roommate and the Careworker * Chapter 9: A World Without Men, Amen? * Part III Conclusion: What Does It Mean to be a Good Mother * VII. Chapter 10: Projecting Single Mothers Into the Future * VIII. Epilogue: Completing Families, Completing Lives * IX. Demographic Appendix: Featured Women * Appendix: Methods and Sampling
* I. Prologue * II. Acknowledgements * III. Introduction * IV. Part I * Chapter 1: Why Cant I have What I Want? * Chapter 2: Liminality and the Courage to Change: Making the Decision to Become a Single Mother * Chapter 3: Moving On: When Baby Makes Two * V. Part II * Part II Introduction * Chapter 4: The Father As An Idea * Chapter 5: Romance, Intimacy and Pregnancy: Father Involvement of Marriage" * Chapter 6: Adoption and Fitting In * Part II Conclusion * VI. Part III * Part III Introduction: Recycling and Reconstituting Families * Chapter 7: What Does Single Mean? * Chapter 8: Downshifting Careers While Financing Motherhood: Relying on the Gift-Giver, the Roommate and the Careworker * Chapter 9: A World Without Men, Amen? * Part III Conclusion: What Does It Mean to be a Good Mother * VII. Chapter 10: Projecting Single Mothers Into the Future * VIII. Epilogue: Completing Families, Completing Lives * IX. Demographic Appendix: Featured Women * Appendix: Methods and Sampling
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