Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it / Joan Williams
- Bib ID:
- 1900360
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Williams, Joan, 1952-
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000
- xii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0195094646 (alkaline paper)
- 0195147146 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"Why do family and work increasingly conflict? Why do men as well as women feel under enormous strain, at home and at work? Why are nearly one-fourth of American children, and nearly forty percent of divorced mothers, poor?"--BOOK JACKET. "Until now, these phenomena have been looked at in isolation. Williams treats them as integrally linked and shows how they are all consequences not of people's choices, intentional discrimination, or biological destiny, but of our system for organizing work."--BOOK JACKET. "Unbending Gender shows that the work/family conflict is gender discrimination, and that the current way of organizing work is terrible for men, still worse for women, and worst of all for children. She proposes a set of practical policies and legal initiatives to reorganize the two realms of work so men and women can lead healthier and more productive work and family lives."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Pt. I. Unbending Gender in Social Life. Ch. 1. Is Domesticity Dead? Ch. 2. From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism. Ch. 3. Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work. Ch. 4. Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Family Entitlements
- Pt. II. Unbending Gender Talk (Including Feminism). Ch. 5. How Domesticity's Gender Wars Take on Elements of Class and Race Conflict. Ch. 6. Do Women Share an Ethic of Care?: Domesticity's Descriptions of Men and Women. Ch. 7. Do Women Need Special Treatment? Do Feminists Need Equality? Ch. 8. The New Paradigm Theorized: Domesticity in Drag.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-333) and index.
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