Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Williams, Joan, 1952-
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Description:	xii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Work and family -- United States. Sexual division of labor -- United States. Mothers -- Employment -- United States. Family -- Economic aspects -- United States. Work and family -- United States -- Forecasting. Families -- Economic aspects. Mothers -- Employment. Sexual division of labor. Work and family. Work and family -- Forecasting. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4065464

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ISBN:	0195094646 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-333) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface: What This Book Is About
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Unbending Gender in Social Life
Chapter 1. Is Domesticity Dead?
Chapter 2. From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism
Chapter 3. Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work
Chapter 4. Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Family Entitlements
Part II. Unbending Gender Talk (Including Feminism)
Chapter 5. How Domesticity's Gender Wars Take on Elements of Class and Race Conflict
Chapter 6. Do Women Share an Ethic of Care?: Domesticity's Descriptions of Men and Women
Chapter 7. Do Women Need Special Treatment? Do Feminists Need Equality?
Chapter 8. The New Paradigm Theorized: Domesticity in Drag
Four Themes of Conclusion
Notes
Index

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