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Surviving Divorce

Women's Resources after Separation

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  • © 1991
  • Latest edition

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Authors:
  1. Mavis Maclean
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Part of the book series: Women in Society (WOSO)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction Women and their money after divorce

    1. Introduction Women and their money after divorce

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 1-7

  3. Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Family change and economic tensions: the role of law

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 11-32

    3. Negotiating an income: women as economic actors

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 33-45

    4. Employment: the way forward?

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 46-59

  4. Strategies for survival

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. Remarriage: the American example

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 65-81

    3. Welfare accounting: the UK experience

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      Pages 82-94

    4. Employers’ attitudes

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 95-112

    5. Family policy: work, welfare and family life — the French partnership

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 113-127

    6. Ways and means

      • Mavis Maclean
      Pages 128-138

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 139-151
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Divorce leads to serious long-term economic problems for women with children. This book looks at the strategies women have developed for coping with these problems, in putting together an income package from earnings, maintenance and welfare. Recent research from America, France and the UK is reported describing the very different approaches in these countries, and how women are relying to different degrees on the labour market, the remarriage market and the public purse.

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