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Lone Mothers, Paid Work and Gendered Moral Rationalitie

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  • © 1999

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  1. Simon Duncan

    1. Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

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  2. Rosalind Edwards

    1. Social Sciences Research Centre, South Bank University, London, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Explaining the ‘Problem’ of Lone Motherhood: an Introduction

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 1-22

  3. Understanding Lone Motherhood: Competing Discourses and Positions

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 23-64

  4. Lone Mothers in Neighbourhoods: Material Contexts and Social Capital

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 65-107

  5. Lone Mothers and Gendered Moral Rationalities: Orientations to Paid Work

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 108-143

  6. Lone Mothers and Paid Work: Human Capital or Gendered Moral Rationalities?

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 144-177

  7. Lone Mothers in Labour Markets: Employment Availability and Geography

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 178-210

  8. Lone Mothers and Genderfare: Positioning Lone Mothers in Welfare States

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 211-252

  9. Economic Decision-making and Moral Rationalities

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 253-280

  10. From National ‘Welfare to Work’ to Local ‘Welfare and Work’

    • Simon Duncan, Rosalind Edwards
    Pages 281-298

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 299-333
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Why are most British lone mothers unemployed? And is 'welfare to work' the right sort of policy response? This book provides an in-depth analysis of how lone mothers negotiate the relationship between motherhood and paid work. Combining qualitative and quantitative data, it focuses on social capital in different neighbourhoods, local labour markets and welfare states. Criticising conventional economic theories of decision-making, it posits an alternative concept of 'gendered moral rationality', and sets up new frameworks for understanding national policy differences and discourses about lone motherhood.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Applied Social Studies, University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK

    Simon Duncan

  • Social Sciences Research Centre, South Bank University, London, UK

    Rosalind Edwards

About the authors

SIMON DUNCAN is Reader in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bradford. He has been appointed Hallsworth Fellow at the University of Manchester for 1998-99, is organiser of the ESRC seminar series on parenting, motherhood and paid work (with Rosalind Edwards), and is programme leader in the ESRC research unit of Care, Values and the Future of Social Policy. Major publications include Housing, States and Localities, The Local State and Uneven Development, Success and Failure in Housing Provision: European systems compared, The Diverse Worlds of European Patriarchy and Single Mothers in International Contexts.

ROSALIND EDWARDS is Reader in Social Policy at South Bank University. She is currently researching parenting and step-parenting after divorce/separation, and children's understanding of parental involvement in education. Major publications include Mature Women Students: Separating or Connecting Family and Education, Mothers and Education: Inside Out? (with M. David, M. Hughes and J. Ribbens), Single Mothers in an International Context: Mothers or Workers? (co-edited with S. Duncan), and Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives (co-edited with J. Ribbens).

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