Intensive parenting alone: Negotiating the cultural contradictions of motherhood as a single mother by choice

Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating Ideologies of Kinship, Self and Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 213-228

  Layne, Linda L ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84930511342     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203103906-26     Document Type: Chapter

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