They're All My Children : : Foster Mothering in America /

They're All My Children : : Foster Mothering in America / / Danielle Wozniak.

The first book on foster care written from foster mothers' perspectives, They're All My Children voices the often painful experiences of contemporary U.S. foster mothers as they struggle to mother and care-work in the face of exploitative social relations with the state. Drawing on extensi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Wozniak, Danielle,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Portrait of a Foster Mother (1) “They’re All My Children, They’re All My Family”
  • 3 Mothers and Workers: Becoming a Foster Mother
  • 4 “I’m Their Mother” Fostering, Motherhood, and the Construction of Kinship
  • 5 Managing Difference, Coping with Delegitimation: Foster Mothers as Nonmothers
  • 6 Mothering Work and the Art of Fostering
  • 7 Familial Changes: Integrating Foster Children into the Foster Family
  • 8 “They Picked Up the Baby and the Baby Was Gone” Mothering and Loss
  • 9 Portrait of a Foster Mother (2) Motherhood, Loss, and Social Action
  • 10 “I Wanna Make It through the Week”
  • 11 Conclusion
  • Appendix: About This Study
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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