Marginalised Mothers: Exploring Working Class Experiences of Parenting

by Val Gillies

Successive moral panics have cast poor or socially excluded mothers - associated with social problems as diverse as crime, underachievement, unemployment and mental illness - as bad mothers. Their mothering practices are held up as the antithesis of good parenting and are associated with poor outcomes for children.

Marginalised Mothers provides a detailed and much-needed insight into the lived experience of mothers who are frequently the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041537636X
• ISBN13: 9780415376365
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.2"