Unbending Gender Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It

Name: Unbending Gender Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It
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ISBN: 9780195147148

ISBN-10: 0195147146

ISBN-13: 9780195147148

Edition: 2001

Authors: Joan Williams

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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 notes that good jobs in America are designed for the ideal employee, who works full-time and often overtime, with no career interruptions. Even today, most American mothers do not meet…

Book details

List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/13/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.72" wide x 5.00" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Preface: What This Book Is About


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Unbending Gender in Social Life



Is Domesticity Dead?



From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism



Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work



Deconstructing 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?



The New Paradigm Theorized: Domesticity in Drag


Four Themes of Conclusion


Notes


Index