Motherhood, Poverty, and the Wic Program in Urban America - Life Strategies

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Suzanne Morrissey is associate professor of anthropology and interdisciplinary studies and director of gender studies at Whitman College.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Suzanne Morrissey, Morrissey Suzanne
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781498530552
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3055-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Lifestyle, personal development; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Sociology: family & relationships, Urban & municipal planning, United States of America, USA, Sociology: family and relationships, Central / national / federal government policies, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Central government policies