ISBN:
0195094646
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9780195147148
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 338 p)
,
ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Unbending Gender : Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
DDC:
306.3/6
Keywords:
Work and family Forecasting
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Mothers Employment
;
Work and family
;
Sexual division of labor
;
Families Economic aspects
;
Work and family -- United States
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Sexual division of labor -- United States
;
Mothers -- Employment -- United States
;
Families -- Economic aspects -- United States
;
Work and family -- United States -- Forecasting
;
Families ; Economic aspects ; United States
;
Mothers ; Employment ; United States
;
Sexual division of labor ; United States
;
Work and family ; United States ; Forecasting
;
Work and family ; United States
;
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Abstract:
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of families and, in divorce cases, recognition of the value of family work and its impact on women's earning power. Williams shows that workplaces are designed around men's bodies and life patterns in ways that
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; PREFACE: What This Book Is About; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Unbending Gender in Social Life; CHAPTER ONE: Is Domesticity Dead?; CHAPTER TWO: From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism; CHAPTER THREE: Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work; CHAPTER FOUR: Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Family Entitlements; PART II: Unbending Gender Talk (Including Feminism); CHAPTER FIVE: How Domesticity's Gender Wars Take on Elements of Class and Race Conflict
Description / Table of Contents:
CHAPTER SIX: Do Women Snare an Ethic of Care?: Domesticity's Descriptions of Men and WomenCHAPTER SEVEN: Do Women Need Special Treatment? Do Feminists Need Equality?; CHAPTER EIGHT: The New Paradigm Theorized: Domesticity in Drag; FOUR THEMES OF CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-333) and index
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