Lives on the Edge
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Author_Valerie Polakow
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- ISBN 9780226671840
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 1994
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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One out of five children, and one out of two single mothers, lives in destitution in America today. The feminization and "infantilization" of poverty have made the United States one of the most dangerous democracies for poor mothers and their children to inhabit. Why then, Valerie Polakow asks, is poverty seen as a private issue, and how can public policy fail to take responsibility for the consequences of our politics of distribution? Written by a committed child advocate, Lives on the Edge draws on social, historical, feminist, and public policy perspectives to develop an informed, wide-ranging critique of American educational and social policy. Stark, penetrating, and unflinching in its first-hand portraits of single mothers in America today, this work challenges basic myths about justice and democracy.
