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Unbending gender : why family and work conflict and what to do about it / Joan Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, Joan, 1952-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Work and family--United States.
- Work and family.
- Sexual division of labor--United States.
- Sexual division of labor.
- Mothers--Employment--United States.
- Mothers.
- Families--Economic aspects--United States.
- Families.
- Work and family--United States--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (353 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 shows that workplaces are designed around men's bodies and life patterns in ways that
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Unbending gender in social life
- pt. 2. Unbending gender talk (including feminism).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-333) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-984047-4
- 1-283-09801-6
- 9786613098016
- 0-19-977189-8
- OCLC:
- 712015969
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