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Informationen zum Autor JILLIAN M. DUQUAINE-WATSON is a senior lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Klappentext Explores how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mums, college students, and in many cases, employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be, and what society is telling them, and how that affects their choices to go to college, and whether to stay in college. Zusammenfassung Explores how single mothers pursuing college degrees must navigate a difficult course as they attempt to reconcile their identities as single mums! college students! and in many cases! employees. They also negotiate a balance between what they think a good mother should be! and what society is telling them! and how that affects their choices to go to college! and whether to stay in college. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prologue: Lessons from My Grandmother1 The Politics of Single Motherhood in America2 Trying to Make Ends Meet3 Clocks and Calendars4 Navigating America’s Child Care Crisis5 Mothering Alone in a Chilly ClimateConclusion AddendumNotesBibliographyIndex
