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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817935603321

Autore

Hattery Angela

Titolo

Women, work, and family : balancing and weaving / / Angela Hattery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, c2001

ISBN

0-7619-1936-8

1-322-41611-7

1-4522-6452-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 233 p.)

Collana

Understanding families ; ; v. 19

Disciplina

306.874/3

Soggetti

Working mothers

Work and family

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Introduction and History of Women's Labor Force Participation; Chapter 2 - Ideologies of Motherhood: Content and the Dominant Model; Chapter 3 - Balancing and Weaving to be a ""Good"" Mother; Chapter 4 - Theoretical Paradigms for Understanding Maternal Labor Force Participation; Chapter 5 - To Work or Not to Work? That is the Question; Chapter 6 -  ""Are Children Better Off If They Have New Bikes Rather Than Having You at Home?"" Motherhood Ideology and the Construction of Economic Need

Chapter 7 - ""He's Got to Learn That the World Is Not Just He Alone"": Solving the Child Care DilemmaChapter 8 - The Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power; Appendix A - Interview Schedule; Appendix B - Demographics of the Interview Sample; Appendix C - Frequency Distributions for Relevant Demographic Variables Broken Down by Entire Sample, Volunteer Sample, and Interview Sample; Appendix D - Sampling and Measurement; Appendix E - Quantitative Data; References; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

This examination of the extraordinary juggling skills of working women who balance obligations to work & family goes beyond description of possible conflicts of interest to seek an understanding of the decision-making process through which they accomplish this balancing.