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| Title: | The unfreedom of being Other: Canadian lone mothers' experiences of poverty and 'life on the cheque' |
| Authors: | Power, Elaine |
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| Keywords: | consumer society
governmentality
lone mothers
neo-liberalism
welfare |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Citation: | Power, E. M. (2005). The unfreedom of being other: Canadian lone mothers' experiences of poverty and 'life on the cheque'. Sociology, 39(4), 643-660. |
| Abstract: | This paper theorizes the experiences of lone mothers living on welfare in contemporary consumer society using a governmentality framework, with particular attention to liberalism’s practices of unfreedom. Analysis suggests two main ways in which lone mothers were constructed and disciplined as Other: as ‘welfare bums’ who were not in the labour market; and as ‘flawed consumers’ without the financial resources to participate in consumer society. This type of study, with its attention to the ‘messy actualities’ of how subjects take up neo-liberal discourse, offers possibilities for the re-politicization of the Foucauldian-inspired governmentality literature by accounting for the costs of neo-liberal forms of rule, and providing insight into how it might be contested. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/1214 |
| Appears in Collections: | Faculty Papers
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