The Poverty of Life-Affirming Work: Motherwork, Education, and Social Change (Contributions in Women's Studies)

by Mechthild U . Hart (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $109.46

  This text challenges traditional notions of welfare mothers by providing first-hand accounts of poor urban mothers and revealing the life-affirming and moral aspects of their motherwork - a form of subsistence work incorporating physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual dimensions.