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1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-217) and index. |
| Contents |
The social context : motherhood in decline? -- Work and family : the choices women make -- Capitalism and motherhood : does it pay to have children? -- Feminist expectations : who suffers from the problem that has no name? -- How family friendly are family-friendly policies? -- Rethinking family policy. |
| Summary |
"The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven't looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers." "A Mother's Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness that, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, has helped to alter family life since the 1960s. It challenges the conventional view on how to balance motherhood and employment, and examines how the choices women make are influenced by the culture of capitalism, feminist expectations, and the social policies of the welfare state. Gilbert argues that while the market ignores the essential value of a mother's work, prevailing norms about the social benefits of work have been overvalued by elites whose opportunities and circumstances little resemble those of most working- and middle-class mothers. And the policies that have been crafted too often seem friendlier to the market than to the family. Gilbert ends his discussion by looking at the issue internationally, and he makes the case for reframing the debate to include a wider range of social values and public benefits that present more options for managing work and family responsibilities."--Jacket. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Working mothers -- United States.
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Working mothers. |
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United States. |
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Work and family -- United States.
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Work and family. |
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Women in the professions -- United States.
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Women in the professions. |
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Family policy -- United States.
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Family policy. |
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Feminist theory -- United States.
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Feminist theory. |
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Electronic books.
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Feminist theory. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gilbert, Neil, 1940- Mother's work. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 9780300119671 (DLC) 2007034309 (OCoLC)167500006 |
| ISBN |
9780300145090 (electronic book) |
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0300145098 (electronic book) |
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9780300119671 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0300119674 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1282351680 |
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9781282351684 |
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