Kathryn Edin
Kathryn Edin is Distinguished Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Sociology and also teaches in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is the coauthor of "Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City", "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage", and "Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work".Timothy Nelson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Johns Hopkins...See more
Kathryn Edin is Distinguished Bloomberg Professor in the Department of Sociology and also teaches in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. She is the coauthor of "Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City", "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage", and "Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work".Timothy Nelson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of "Every Time I Feel the Spirit: Religious Experience and Ritual in an African American Church." See less
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Kathryn Edin book reviews
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK
by metra2, Apr 13, 2012
Everyone should read this book. It helps explain why the poor -- irrespective of race -- act as they do, and why the pattern of children-before-marriage (if there ever is a marriage) is creeping ... Read More
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Wonderful insights
Well-written and fun to read, gives unexpected and important insights into the hearts of women in poor communities. Changed my thinking just by informing me. Read More
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Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage
Sets a high standard for ethnographic studies
by rahgsu, Mar 13, 2008
The quotation from William Julius Wilson on the cover sounds "over the top," but it is not: "This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-income urban women." ... Read More