Single Motherhood and Poverty
The Case of the Netherlands
Distributed for Amsterdam University Press
With a Foreword by Sylvia Chant
223 pages
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6 2/3 x 9 1/2
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© 2009
Contents
Foreword by Sylvia Chant
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Single motherhood and poverty in a theoretical perspective
3. Making ends meet: constructing daily life
4. Fathers, boyfriends and ex-husbands
5. Motherhood, neatness and poverty
6. Being on benefits and dependent on the state
7. Networks that support and stigmatize (with Gerdien Steenbeek)
8. Migrant women and the state
9. Discussion and conclusions
Bibliography
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