Mature Unwed Mothers : Narratives of Moral Resistance /
This book describes the moral decision-making process toward unwed motherhood based on a fifteen-year longitudinal study of fifty Israeli single women aged 30 and over, each of whom decided to have a child on her own following a short- or long-term relationship with a male partner. The author views...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Springer US,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book describes the moral decision-making process toward unwed motherhood based on a fifteen-year longitudinal study of fifty Israeli single women aged 30 and over, each of whom decided to have a child on her own following a short- or long-term relationship with a male partner. The author views these women as conscious resisters to the societal script of marriage-reproduction-motherhood and documents their narratives of moral subjectivity. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 170 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781461512752 (electronic bk.) 1461512751 (electronic bk.) |