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Author Williams, Joan, 1952-

Title Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it / Joan Williams.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.36 W673u    ---  Available
Description xii, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-333) and index.
Contents Unbending gender in social life -- Is domesticity dead? -- From full commodification to reconstructive feminism -- Deconstructing the ideal-worker norm in market work -- Deconstructiong the ideal-worker norm in family entitlements -- Unbending gender talk (including feminism) -- How domesticity's gender wars take on elements of class and race conflict -- Do women share an ethic of care : domesticity's descriptions of men and women -- Do women need special treatment? Do feminists need equality? -- New paradigm theorized : domesticity in drag.
Subject Work and family.
Sexual division of labor.
Mothers -- Employment.
Work and family -- Forecasting.
ISBN 0195094646 (alk. paper)

 
    
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