Going it Alone?
Going it Alone?

Author: Martina Klett-Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 131712619X

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Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding of lone mothers. Suggestions with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.

Going Alone
Going Alone

Author: Susan Fox Rogers

Publisher: Seal Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9781580051064

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A followup to Solo: On Her Own Adventure continues the author's chronicle of a life lived in pursuit of outdoor experiences, taking readers from the Himalayan foothills of Nepal to the wilds of Alaska on a series of fascinating, sometimes harrowing adventures. Original.

Going It Alone
Going It Alone

Author: Robert Tonkinson

Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press

Published: 1990-11

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0855755660

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This collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.

Going Solo
Going Solo

Author: Eric Klinenberg

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2013-01-29

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0143122770

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With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience. Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.

Going It Alone
Going It Alone

Author: Michael Innes

Publisher: House of Stratus

Published: 2010-02-20

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 0755120973

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Gilbert Averell avoids some of the rigours of taxation by living for part of each year in France. His look-alike friend, Georges, suggests that they swap passports for a short spell, and Gilbert seizes the opportunity. However, a number of incidents, suggest the offer was not made out of simple friendship.

Going It Alone
Going It Alone

Author: Tim Hauserman

Publisher: University of Nevada Press

Published: 2022-08-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1647790662

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Join author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the United States. Along the way, he confronts his conflicting desires to be alone in the wilderness, then facing profound loneliness and fear once he is there. In a single instant, he goes from enjoying a shimmering mountain lake to being petrified by the sound of a bear crunching through sticks right next to his tent. Hauserman hikes the John Muir Trail through rainstorms and challenging climbs, explores the Tahoe Rim Trail on a fourteen-day excursion, and travels to Minnesota to conquer the Superior Hiking Trail, where he is inundated with bugs, faces drought, and is eerily alone on the trail with not a single other hiker in sight for days. Going It Alone combines his self-deprecating humor, what he identifies as “Stupid Tim Tricks,” and delightful descriptions of the natural surroundings. Some might describe the wilderness as the middle of nowhere or as nothingness, but for Hauserman, it is everything. While his love for nature remains undaunted through these experiences, he also discovers that he has overly high expectations for his capabilities and that he cannot just wish his loneliness away. He eventually discovers that his long walks in the woods are less about hiking and more about learning how he wants to live his life.

Going it Alone?
Going it Alone?

Author: Martina Klett-Davies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1317126181

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Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding of lone mothers. Suggestions with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.

Going It Alone
Going It Alone

Author: Russell Sullivan

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 1452509425

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Going! Going! Gone! This is a travel story with a difference. A tale of misadventure, should SHE have a name, and wonder. It is a short story about life and the difficult art of navigating its trails. Those who for different reasons find that life sends them down a path unknown or dare wonder what it is all about if anything at all. This is that sort of story. The writer did, and still does wonder. Is that an issue, only for those who have not asked the question the author thinks. Readers can peruse this tale and make their own decisions about such deep and ponderous notions. And for those who think they are lost and alone in the world, it is full of others just like you. Remember then, you are not alone. Chance and opportunity bring like persons into contact, and as such what seems to those unfamiliar a lonesome path is abundant with those who tread its boards. This is the story of one of those many.

Going It Alone
Going It Alone

Author: Clare Dowling

Publisher: Review

Published: 2009-05-03

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0755354117

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Millie's biological clock has been ticking for some time, and on the eve of her fortieth birthday the alarm bell starts ringing. She needs to have a baby and fast, but after months of fruitless trying, her husband Andrew is feeling like a walking sperm bank and their marriage is in crisis. Matters come to a head when Andrew's job relocates to London and Millie decides that if he won't stick around to get her pregnant, then she'll do it without him. Setting her sights on Spain, Millie embarks on a voyage of discovery ...

How to Be Alone
How to Be Alone

Author: Lane Moore

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1501178849

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The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book. Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had. From spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor, anxiety, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift. How to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words.