Mothering by Degrees: Single Mothers and the Pursuit of Postsecondary Education
(Part of the The American Campus Series)
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Winner of the 2018 AERA Division J Outstanding Publication Award In Mothering by Degrees, Jillian Duquaine-Watson shows how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single moms, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college, and whether to stay in college or not. The first book length study to focus on the lives and experiences of single mothers who are college students, Mothering by Degrees points out how these women are influenced by dominant American ideologies of motherhood, and the institutional parameters of the schools they attend, and argues for increased attention to the specific ways in which the choices, challenges, and opportunities available to mothers are shaped within their specific environments, as well as the ways in which mothers help shape those environments...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:081358843X
ISBN13:9780813588438
Release Date:May 2017
Publisher:Rutgers University Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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