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Author Williams, Joan, 1952-

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 338 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents 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? -- New paradigm theorized: domesticity in drag.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject Work and family -- United States.
Work and family.
United States.
Sexual division of labor -- United States.
Sexual division of labor.
Mothers -- Employment -- United States.
Mothers -- Employment.
Families -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Families -- Economic aspects.
Work and family -- United States -- Forecasting.
Forecasting.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Mothers.
Other Form: Print version: Williams, Joan, 1952- Unbending gender. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001, ©2000 0195147146 (OCoLC)48653181
ISBN 9780199771899 (electronic book)
0199771898 (electronic book)
0195147146
9780195147148
0195094646 (alkaline paper)
9780195094640 (alkaline paper)