Heading home : motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality / Shani Orgad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orgad, Shani, 1972- autor.

Language:

English

Genre:

Llibres electrònics

Physical Description:

1 recurs en línia (305 pàgines)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others-give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. Shani Orgad draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Despite identifying the structural forces that maintain gender inequality, these women still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how-even as their experiences fly in the face of fantasies of work-life balance and marriage as an egalitarian partnership-these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. Rather than calling for women to transform their feelings and behavior, Heading Home argues that we must unmute and amplify women's desire, disappointment, and rage, and demand social infrastructure that will bring about long-overdue equality both at work and at home.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

PART 1: Heading Home: Forced Choices

CHAPTER 1. Choice and Confidence Culture/ Toxic Work Culture

CHAPTER 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes

PART 2: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices

CHAPTER 3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO

CHAPTER 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives

PART 3: Heading Where? Curbed Desires

CHAPTER 5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire

CHAPTER 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains

Conclusion: Impatience

Appendix 1: Interviewees' Key Characteristics

Appendix 2: List of Media and Policy Representations

Appendix 3: Study Methodology

Appendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers

Notes

Index

Notes:

Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex

Descripció del recurs: 4 novembre 2023

ISBN:

9780231545631

OCLC:

1039202796