Becoming An Unwed Mother

Author : Prudence Mors Rains
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351327787

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Becoming an Unwed Mother by Prudence Mors Rains Pdf

Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers; they use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance. Based largely on observation of middle-class white girls in a psychiatricallyoriented mater nity home and lower-class black teenagers in a day school for unwed mothers, the study focuses on the unwed mother's moral career as it is shaped by social agencies.

Author : Prudence Mors Rains
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 113851926X

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Becoming an Unwed Mother by Prudence Mors Rains Pdf

Most unmarried women who engage in sexual intercourse do not become unwed mothers; they use contraceptives, secure an abortion, or get married before the baby is born. What happens to the minority of women who bear illegitimate children? This book is the first study to describe in detail the actual situation of unwed motherhood, as opposed to the causes and pathology of deviance. Based largely on observation of middle-class white girls in a psychiatricallyoriented mater nity home and lower-class black teenagers in a day school for unwed mothers, the study focuses on the unwed mother's moral career as it is shaped by social agencies.

Author : Prudence Mors Rains
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780202364407

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Becoming an Unwed Mother by Prudence Mors Rains Pdf

Author : Sheila Tofield
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405911351

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The Unmarried Mother by Sheila Tofield Pdf

Sheila Tofield tells her moving true story about being a single mother in 1950s Britain, in The Unmarried Mother. 'A searing, honest testimony' Lesley Pearse Sheila grew up in Rotherham, the daughter of an uncaring mother who made her believe she was useless, stupid and - most painfully of all - unlovable. As a young woman, her worst childhood fears were confirmed when her fiancé broke off their engagement without an explanation. Heartbroken and vulnerable, Sheila was easy prey to the worst type of man - a man who turned his back on her when she told him she was carrying his child. In Fifties Britain, an unmarried, pregnant girl received,not sympathy but censure and contempt. Shunned by most of her family, Sheila ended up in a Church of England home for unmarried mothers, with no apparent alternative than to give up her child for adoption. But when she held her newborn daughter in her arms for the first time, Sheila knew she had to do the unthinkable: bring up her baby on her own in a society that would condemn her for it. Sheila Tofield is a proud grandmother living in Chichester and The Unmarried Mother is her first book. Her touching story was picked up by Penguin when she entered the hugely successful life story competition with Saga Magazine.

Author : Valerie J. Andrews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1772581720

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White Unwed Mother by Valerie J. Andrews Pdf

"This volume uncovers and substantiates evidence of the mandate in Canada, interrogates social work policies and practices, revisits the semi-incarceral "homes for unwed mothers," and quantifies the mandate through an extensive review of provincial reports; ultimately finding that approximately 300,000 unmarried mothers in Canada were impacted by illegal and unethical adoption practices, human rights abuses, and violence against the maternal body."--

Author : Sarah Kowalski
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631522734

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Motherhood Reimagined by Sarah Kowalski Pdf

At the age of thirty-nine, Sarah Kowalski heard her biological clock ticking, loudly. A single woman harboring a deep ambivalence about motherhood, Kowalski needed to decide once and for all: Did she want a baby or not? More importantly, with no partner on the horizon, did she want to have a baby alone? Once she revised her idea of motherhood—from an experience she would share with a partner to a journey she would embark upon alone—the answer came up a resounding Yes. After exploring her options, Kowalski chose to conceive using a sperm donor, but her plan stopped short when a doctor declared her infertile. How far would she go to make motherhood a reality? Kowalski catapulted herself into a diligent regimen of herbs, Qigong, meditation, acupuncture, and more, in a quest to improve her chances of conception. Along the way, she delved deep into spiritual healing practices, facing down demons of self-doubt and self-hatred, ultimately discovering an unconventional path to parenthood. In the end, to become a mother, Kowalski did everything she said she would never do. And she wouldn't change a thing. A story of personal triumph and unconditional love, Motherhood Reimagined reveals what happens when we release what's expected and embrace what's possible.

Author : Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771622035

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The Cowkeeper's Wish by Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog Pdf

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Author : Anne Petrie
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551996097

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Gone to an Aunt's by Anne Petrie Pdf

Thirty or forty years ago, everybody knew what that phrase meant: a girl or a young, unmarried woman had gotten herself pregnant. She was “in trouble.” She had brought indescribable shame on herself and her family. In those days it was unthinkable that she would have her child and keep it. Instead she had to hide. Most likely she would be sent away to a home for unwed mothers, where she would stay in secrecy until her baby was born and given up for adoption. “Gone to an aunt’s” was the usual cover story, a fiction that everyone understood but no on talked about –until now. In Gone to an Aunt’s, journalist and long-time television host Anne Petrie takes us back into these homes for unwed mothers. Most cities in Canada had at least one home, several as many as five or six, most of them run by religious organizations. Here, in institutional settings, the girls were kept out of sight until their time was up and they could return to the world as if nothing had happened. Seven women –including the author – recount their experiences in Gone to an Aunt’s, talking openly, some for the first time, about how they got pregnant; the reaction of their parents, friends, boyfriends, and lovers; why they wound up in a home; and how they managed to cope with its rules and regulations –no last names, no talking about the past –and the promise of salvation that could come only through work and prayer. Gone to an Aunt’s is a profoundly moving and compassionate –even alarming – account. It comes as a reminder that we not get too wistful for the supposedly innocent times before the sexual revolution. That innocence, Petrie shows vividly, was a charade made believable only because the thousands of girls who had broken the rules were hidden away.

Author : Jane Mattes, L.C.S.W.
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994-05-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780812922462

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Single Mothers by Choice by Jane Mattes, L.C.S.W. Pdf

The first handbook for the paoidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, written by the director of the national organization, Single Mothers by Choice.

Author : Samantha Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319733203

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Unmarried Motherhood in the Metropolis, 1700–1850 by Samantha Williams Pdf

In this book Samantha Williams examines illegitimacy, unmarried parenthood and the old and new poor laws in a period of rising illegitimacy and poor relief expenditure. In doing so, she explores the experience of being an unmarried mother from courtship and conception, through the discovery of pregnancy, and the birth of the child in lodgings or one of the new parish workhouses. Although fathers were generally held to be financially responsible for their illegitimate children, the recovery of these costs was particularly low in London, leaving the parish ratepayers to meet the cost. Unmarried parenthood was associated with shame and men and women could also be subject to punishment, although this was generally infrequent in the capital. Illegitimacy and the poor law were interdependent and this book charts the experience of unmarried motherhood and the making of metropolitan bastardy.

Author : Ekaterina Hertog
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804772396

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Tough Choices by Ekaterina Hertog Pdf

As is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the past fifty years. This book provides the first systematic study of single motherhood in contemporary Japan. Seeking to answer why illegitimate births in Japan remain such a rarity, Hertog spent over three years interviewing single mothers, academics, social workers, activists, and policymakers about the beliefs, values, and choices that unmarried Japanese mothers have. Pairing her findings with extensive research, she considers the economic and legal disadvantages these women face, as well as the cultural context that underscores family change and social inequality in Japan. This is the only scholarly account that offers sufficient detail to allow for extensive comparisons with unmarried mothers in the West.

Author : Faye Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359625307

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How to Be A Single Mother Success Through All The BS! by Faye Brown Pdf

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781608467204

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The Mother of All Questions by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

A collection of feminist essays steeped in “Solnit’s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity” (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, “Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling—the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women’s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible” (The New Yorker). “There’s a new feminist revolution—open to people of all genders—brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Natural Causes “Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.” —Publishers Weekly “A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit’s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.” —Booklist

Author : Regina Bailey
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1722794607

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Motherhood My Way by Regina Bailey Pdf

At the age of 35, Dr. Regina was at the prime of her career, but in her personal life she was recovering from sexual assault and had not found her so called "Mr. Right." Facing declining fertility and a mother with failing health desiring a grandchild, Dr. Regina did what some said would ruin her career and life, she decided to become a single smother using a sperm donor. In this book, Dr. Regina gives a frank commentary of her decision to pursue choice motherhood, the process of finding a sperm donor, dealing with infertility, the process of IUI and IVF, handling miscarriage, trying IVF again, dealing with a pregnancy with no partner, delivery of the baby and dealing with life and the questions that ensue as her child grows.

Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520389434

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Being Single in India by Sarah Lamb Pdf

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah Lamb probes the gendered trend of single women living in India, examining what makes living outside marriage for women increasingly possible and yet incredibly challenging. Featuring the stories of never-married women as young as 35 and as old as 92, the book offers a remarkable portrait of a way of life experienced by women across class and caste divides, from urban professionals and rural day laborers, to those who identify as heterosexual and lesbian, to others who evaded marriage both by choice and by circumstance. For women in India, complex social-cultural and political-economic contexts are foundational to their lives and decisions, and evading marriage is often an unintended consequence of other pressing life priorities. Arguing that never-married women are able to illuminate their society's broader social-cultural values, Lamb offers a new and startling look at prevailing systems of gender, sexuality, kinship, freedom, and social belonging in India today.