Homeless mothers
Subtitle: face to face with women and poverty
By: Deborah R. Connolly.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Homeless women -- Oregon -- Case studies; Homeless families -- Oregon -- Case studies; Social service -- Oregon -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Face to face with women and poverty
Description: "Does the woman with no money, no home, and no help have any chance at all of being a good mother? This woman's voice, so rarely heard and so often ignored, resonates through this book, which describes the lives of mothers on the margins and asks where they fit in the model set up by our society."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Kristy : a narrative; title: Motherly things; title: Precarious lives; title: "Patches on the wound" : politics and dynamics at Westside Community Center; title: "Don't feed the alligators" : debating welfare; title: Leaving the field.