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This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sick Cities: Poverty and Infant Mortality in Central New York
Chapter 2. Imperatives and Impacts of the Federal WIC Program
Chapter 3. What's the Problem?: Methodological Choices and Institutional Ethnography
Chapter 4. Inside WIC: Bureaucracy, Barriers, and Provider Values
Chapter 5. Strategizing Motherhood and Seeking Health in Urban America
Chapter 6. Metaphorical Thought and the Construction of WIC Frames of Reference
Chapter 7. Hidden Rationalities
Appendixes A-O
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Suzanne Morrissey is associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies and director of gender studies at Whitman College.
Zusammenfassung
This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities. Looking at the everyday lives of struggling women, it explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty.