GWST 2800Y Lecture 4: GWST JAN.21st.docx
28 Jan 2015
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Hicks-bartlett, s. between a rock and a hard place: the labyrinth of working and parenting in a poor community overview. Emphasizes the importance of family networks in the face of extreme social and economic hardship. Meadow view suburb high levels of poverty, highly racialized & stigmatized. Challenges self-sufficiency" as a policy mandate (by focusing on how people organize to ensure their survival and the survival of their children) In other words, this is not a context where self-sufficiency is viable. In meadow view, for the greatest number of family members to survive, space must be strategically and carefully managed. Which required a high level of vigilance that burdens families and reinforces their interdependency (p. 289) She traces the ways in which family is (re)configured in order to ensure survival, as well as the limitations of the family-based strategies people employ. Lewin, e. resignation and refusal: the moral calculus of lesbian and gay parenthood in the.
