Teen Mothers--Citizens or Dependents?
Author:   Ruth Horowitz
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
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9780226353791


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 June 1996
Format:   Paperback
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In a book that speaks clearly and forcefully to the heart of the welfare debate in the United States, Ruth Horowitz examines one of the most critical questions of welfare policy: how can a United States government program help teen mothers—one of the most needful groups of all welfare recipients—move from welfare dependency to employment, independence, and responsible citizenship? ""Rich vignettes reveal the complexities of teenage mothers' lives, particularly the disjuncture between classroom and street identities, 'inside' and 'outside.' . . . Original and illuminating as well as timely.""—Sharon Thompson, Women's Review of Books ""Horowitz offers insights that should be considered in the debate over welfare reform. . . . Teen Mothers . . . places Horowitz's results in the context of major theories about the role of welfare in the U.S. and offers a microlevel critique of the implicit assumptions and probable consequences of each theory's approach to welfare reform.""—Booklist

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Author:   Ruth Horowitz
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.20cm , Length: 2.30cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780226353791


ISBN 10:   0226353796
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   15 June 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Pt. 1: Issues in Program Development 1: Getting to Know Project GED 2: Contested Organizational Cultures: Helping and Authority Pt. 2: Social Service Providers and Teen Mothers 3: Social Service Providers' Problems of Social Identity 4: Social Distance as a Strategy of Compliance 5: Classroom Failure without Redress 6: Sex and Boyfriends: Your Dirty Laundry or Dramatic Dreams 7: Motherhood: Authenticity and the Context of Suspicion 8: Changing Welfare from Stigma to Scholarship: The Arbiters versus the Mediators Pt. 3: Is Welfare Reform Possible? 9: Backstage Links to Public Empowerment 10: The Embodied Reason of Welfare Reform References Index

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