ISBN:
9780415636773
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Parallel Title:
Print version Married to the Job (RLE Feminist Theory) : Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work
DDC:
306.8/72
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area: the relationships of wives to their husbands' work. Janet Finch looks both at the way women's lives are directly affected by the work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These she sees as the two sides of wives' 'incorporation'. Dr Finch discusses a wide range of occupations, from obvious stereotypes - services, diplomatic, clergy and political wives - to more subtle but equally valid shades of involvement - the wives of policemen, merchant seamen, prison officers, the owners of small businesses and academics
Description / Table of Contents:
MARRIED TO THE JOB Wives' Inscorporation in Men's Work; Copyright; Married to the Job: Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part One Hedging Her In: How Men's Work Structures their Wives' Lives; Introduction to Part One; 2 Time Elements: Patterns, Structures and Competition; 3 Work Characteristics: Implications Inside and Outside the Home; 4 Spatial Elements: Aspects of the Location of Home and Work; 5 Constraints, Identities and Room for Manoeuvre; Part Two Drawing Her In: Wives' Contributions to their Husbands' Work
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction to Part Two6 Domestic Labour and the Production of the Male Worker; 7 Giving Moral Support; 8 Two for the Price of One: Peripheral Activities; 9 Two for the Price of One: Back-Up Services; 10 Two for the Price of One: the Additional Worker; 11 The Productive Work of Wives; Part Three Married to the Job: the Foundations of Wives' Incorporation; Introduction to Part Three; 12 Varieties of Incorporation and the Occupational Dimension; 13 Doing Three Jobs: the Hierarchy of Priorities; 14 Making Sense of Being Married to the Job: Wives' Careers and Projects; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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