Against the Grain : Couples, Gender, and the Reframing of Parenting / Gillian Ranson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ranson, Gillian, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parenting--Canada.

Parenting.

Sex role--Canada.

Sex role.

Work and family--Canada.

Work and family.

Sexual division of labor--Canada.

Sexual division of labor.

Social change--Canada.

Social change.

Parents--Canada--Case studies.

Parents.

Canada.

Genre:

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles; as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer."--pub. desc.

"Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Part I: Setting the Scene""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1 Establishing the Context""; ""Chapter 2 The Study""; ""Part II: Getting Started: Caring for Children in the Preschool Years""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 3 The â€oeCrossoversâ€?: Breadwinner Mothers with Partners at Home""; ""Chapter 4 â€oeShift-Workersâ€? and â€oeDual-Dividersâ€?: Sharing Earning, Sharing Caring""; ""Part III: The Longer View: Couples with School-Age Children""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 5 Challenges on the Path to Change""; ""Chapter 6 Parents as Peers""

""Part IV: Review and Reflection""""Introduction""; ""Chapter 7 Parenting and the Undoing of Gender""; ""Appendix: The Study Participants""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-0402-6

1-4426-8702-9

OCLC:

865475031