Motherhood and Single-Lone Parenting

Abstract

Intro -- Copyright -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I. DISCOURSE, MEDIA, AND REPRESENTATION -- 1. Mothering in Dystopia -- 2. Do Two a Family Make? -- 3. Every Child Needs a Father -- 4. Courageous Mothering -- II. THE EXPERIENTIAL -- 5. Single Motherhood -- 6. Single Mother Adoption -- 7. Great Lakes to Great Walls -- 8. The Lone Ranger -- 9. Single Lesbian1 Mothers2 -- III. POLICY, RESISTANCE, AND ACTIVISM -- 10. Historicizing the Marginalization of Single Mothers -- 11. Single-Parent Families, Mother-Led Households, and Well-Being -- 12. One-Parent Families in Spain -- 13. Escaping a Life of Violence? Migrant Mother-Families in Germany -- 14. I Play, Therefore, I Am -- 15. Scripting Stories of Resistance -- 16. Single Mothers' Activism against Poverty Governance in the U.S. Child Welfare System -- About the Contributors.