Parenting for the State

An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

AvTeresa Toguchi Swartz

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

Through careful ethnography and rich in-depth interviews at a non-profit foster family agency, this book takes a look behind the scenes of our troubled foster care system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches in Sociology
Antal sidor:168
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415972611

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi och antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Teresa Toguchi Swartz is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on families; race, class, and gender; and social policy.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: The State as Parent 2. The Context of Foster Care Policy and Practice 3. Foster Care through Expert Eyes 4. Money, Meaning and Mothering: The multiple motivations of foster parent carework 5. Negotiating 'Hope': The challenges of state supervised parenting 6. Caring Professionals and Professional Caring 7. The Perils and Promises of Privatization 8. Foster Care and the Welfare State in Ethnographic Perspective Notes. Bibliography. Index.