"If I Had Abandoned My Children": Community Mobilization and Commitment to the Identity of Mother in Northeast Brazil.

Neuhouser, Kevin

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Publication Date: 1998

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"If I Had Abandoned My Children": Community Mobilization and Commitment to the Identity of Mother in Northeast Brazil.

Neuhouser, Kevin

Social Forces, v77 n1 p331-58 Sep 1998

In an urban Brazilian shantytown, poor mothers took the risk of becoming squatters on public land (despite repressive actions by a military dictatorship) because activism was their only avenue to access the resources (housing) needed for motherhood--their only available valued identity. Poor fathers, having other possible identities, tended to abandon their families in hard times. Contains 69 references. (SV)

Descriptors: Activism, Child Neglect, Child Rearing, Fatherless Family, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Identification (Psychology), Mother Attitudes, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role, Poverty, Risk, Sex Role, Social Action

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Brazil

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