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Subject: Lone mothers, paid work, gendered moral rationalities - book
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:44:56 +0000
From: Simon Duncan <S.S.Duncan at BRADFORD.AC.UK>
Reply-To: Simon Duncan <S.S.Duncan at BRADFORD.AC.UK>
To: FAMILY-AND-HOUSEHOLD at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalities

Special Offer! - 20% off the paperback and 50% off the
hardback price.


Simon Duncan, Reader in Comparative Social Policy at the University of
Bradford and Rosalind Edwards, Reader in Social Policy at South Bank
University

'The concept of 'gendered moral rationalities' offers a very fruitful
framework within which to knit together agency and structure in
understanding lone mothers' employment patterns'
 Ruth Lister, Policy and Politics


Why are British lone mothers less likely to be in paid work than in most
other western countries? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of
policy
response? This book sets out to answer questions like these through
in-depth
analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between
motherhood
and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses
on
social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and
welfare
states, and throughout makes particular comparisons with lone mothers in
Germany, Sweden and the USA. In so doing, the book provides a critique
of
conventional economic accounts of decision-making, and posits an
alternative
concept of 'gendered moral rationality' which can better account for
lone
mothers' labour market behaviour. It also sets up a new framework for
understanding political and policy discourses about lone motherhood, and
develops a concept of 'genderfare' with which to understand national
policy
differences.

Paperback  £18.99  £15.20  0-333-64453-0
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