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Doing It for Themselves

Name: Doing It for Themselves
Author: Margaret K. Nelson
ISBN: 9780415947770

by Margaret K. Nelson

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Overview

Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America--a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.

Synopsis

Margaret Nelson investigates the lives of single, working-class mothers in this compelling and timely book. Through personal interviews, she uncovers the different challenges that mothers and their children face in small town America—a place greatly changed over the past fifty years as factory work has dried up and national chains like Walmart have moved in.

About the Author, Margaret K. Nelson

Margaret Nelson is the Hepburn Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont. She is the author of Negotiated Care and the co-author of Working Hard and Making Do and Circles of Care.