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Book Reviews : Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood. Edited by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva. New York: Routledge, 1996, 241 pp ...

Book Reviews : Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood. Edited by... The unwieldiness inherent in the book’s also imposed organization in the themselves. The entire work could have appears chapters benefited from That it contains an said, however, vigorous editing. abundance of information on a of as can and, such, variety subjects serve as a valuable reference work for social and health care workers alike. L. GOODMAN JANIS University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Good Feminist on Lone Motherhood. Perspectives Enough Mothering? Edited Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva. New York: 241 Routledge, 1996, by $65 $19.95 (hardbound), pp., (paper). This book focuses on the various of women children aspects raising alone. all 11 were written British and scholars, Although chapters by in thus the is on what lone motherhood means underlying emphasis that Great the book also a multicultural Britain, presents analysis of are it more universal The three themes the book utility. major gives and motherhood the dis- a historical on (and perspective mothering the cross-national and the un- tinction between two), comparisons, related to mothers of the welfare derlying political ideologies policies and their children. on of motherhood The book’s the revisionist perspective history an view of the idealization of motherhood, interesting per provides a mothers and se. There has been http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Good Enough Mothering? Feminist Perspectives on Lone Motherhood. Edited by Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva. New York: Routledge, 1996, 241 pp ...

Kasper, Barbara
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 13 (1): 3 – Apr 1, 1998
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The unwieldiness inherent in the book’s also imposed organization in the themselves. The entire work could have appears chapters benefited from That it contains an said, however, vigorous editing. abundance of information on a of as can and, such, variety subjects serve as a valuable reference work for social and health care workers alike. L. GOODMAN JANIS University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Good Feminist on Lone Motherhood. Perspectives Enough Mothering? Edited Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva. New York: 241 Routledge, 1996, by $65 $19.95 (hardbound), pp., (paper). This book focuses on the various of women children aspects raising alone. all 11 were written British and scholars, Although chapters by in thus the is on what lone motherhood means underlying emphasis that Great the book also a multicultural Britain, presents analysis of are it more universal The three themes the book utility. major gives and motherhood the dis- a historical on (and perspective mothering the cross-national and the un- tinction between two), comparisons, related to mothers of the welfare derlying political ideologies policies and their children. on of motherhood The book’s the revisionist perspective history an view of the idealization of motherhood, interesting per provides a mothers and se. There has been

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