Teresa Toguchi Swartz

Parenting for the State

An Ethnographic Analysis of Non-Profit Foster Care

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 425g
• ISBN-13: 9780415972611
• ISBN-10: 0415972612
• Artikelnr.: 20997161

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.