Homeless Mothers

Connolly, Deborah R.

ISBN 10: 0816632820 / ISBN 13: 9780816632824

Published by University of Minnesota Press, 2001

About this Item

Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: JKSN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 275. . 2001. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Seller Inventory # V9780816632824

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Homeless Mothers
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816632820
• ISBN 13: 9780816632824
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Homeless Mothers follows the lives of mothers on the margins and asks where they fit into the increasingly black-and-white model of motherhood set up by society. Their voices, so rarely heard and so often ignored, resonate throughout this book. Both an anthropologist in the field and a social worker on the job, Deborah R. Connolly is ideally placed to draw out these women's life stories. Using their own words, by turns eloquent and awkward, poignant and harsh, she maps the perilous territory between the promise of childhood and the hard reality of motherhood on the street. What emerges is a glimpse of the cultural, class, gender, and economic challenges these women experience, a glimpse as real for us as the headlines and stereotypes that so often displace homeless mothers and consign them to silence.

Deborah R. Connolly is an advocate for the homeless and a senior research associate at Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco. She recently taught cultural anthropology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

About the Author

Connolly is senior research associate at Edgewood Center for Children and Families in San Francisco and an advocate for the homeless. She recently taught cultural anthropology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.