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This compelling book destroys the derogatory images of single mothers that too often prevail in the media and in politics by creating a rich, moving, multidimensional picture of who these women really are. Ruth Sidel interviewed mothers from diverse races, ethnicities, religions, and social classes who became single through divorce, separation, widowhood, or who never married; none had planned to raise children on their own. Weaving together these women's voices with an accessible, cutting-edge sociological and political analysis of single motherhood today, Unsung Heroines introduces a resilient, resourceful, and courageous population of women committed to their families, holding fast to quintessential American values, and creating positive new lives for themselves and their children. What emerges from this penetrating study is a clear message about what all families-two-parent as well as single parent-must have to succeed: decent jobs at a living wage, comprehensive health care, and preschool and after-school care. In a final chapter, Sidel gives a broad political-economic analysis that provides historical background on the way American social policy has evolved and compares the situation in the U.S. to the social policies and ideologies of other countries.

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Alleinerziehend sind nach wie vor hauptsächlich die Mütter, die - zumindest im Kontext des Rechts - als auf die Geldzahlungen der Kindesväter Wartende konstruiert werden. Wie genau denkt das Recht also diese Form der Mutterschaft und welches Familienbild liegt hier zugrunde? Um diesen Fragen nachzugehen, betrachtet Anna Kastens transdisziplinäre Studie die Mitwirkung der alleinerziehenden Mütter bei der Feststellung der Vaterschaft im Unterhaltsvorschussgesetz in Deutschland und im Gesetz über Familienleistungen in Polen. Alleinerziehende Mutterschaft erweist sich hierbei als Technologie einer heteronormativen Familienordnung. »Die Studie von Anna Kasten ist für Fachkräfte der Sozialen Arbeit und deren Bezugswissenschaften von enormer Relevanz, denn sie zeigt auf, wie tiefgreifend die heteronormativen Denkweisen in die Rechtssysteme in Deutschland und Polen eingeflochten sind.« Alessa Wenzlaff, Soziologische Revue, 21.07.2020

Alleinerziehende Mutterschaft; Heteronormativität; Macht; Recht; Diskurs; Deutschland; Polen; Familienrecht; Familienordnung; Familienbild; Geschlecht; Familie; Gender Studies; Familiensoziologie; Queer Theory; Rechtssoziologie; Kulturwissenschaft; Single Motherhood; Heteronormativity; Power; Law; Discourse; Germany; Poland; Family Law; Family Order; Family Picture; Gender; Family; Sociology of Family; Sociology of Law; Cultural Studies --- Cultural Studies. --- Discourse. --- Family Law. --- Family Order. --- Family Picture. --- Family. --- Gender Studies. --- Gender. --- Germany. --- Heteronormativity. --- Law. --- Poland. --- Power. --- Queer Theory. --- Sociology of Family. --- Sociology of Law.