Mature unwed mothers
Subtitle: narratives of moral resistance
By: by Ruth Linn.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Unmarried mothers -- Israel -- Longitudinal studies; Motherhood -- Israel -- Decision making; Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Israel
Genres: Longitudinal studies.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-163) and index.