Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women s lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs andstruggling to care for their children whilesurviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes facing physical or mental health problems. But until now little attention has been paid to an important force in these women s lives: religion.Based on in-depth interviews with women and pastors, Susan Crawford Sullivan presents poor mothers often overlooked views. Recruited from a variety of social...
Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women s lives can be difficult as they go about search...
