Why who cleans counts : what housework tells us about American family life / Shannon N. Davis and Theodore N. Greenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Shannon N., author.

Greenstein, Theodore N., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--United States.

Families.

Sexual division of labor--Social aspects--United States.

Sexual division of labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.

Summary:

Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing frequently from theoretical explanations that highlight the importance of power dynamics. This book moves beyond the existing scholarship by using quantitative, nationally representative survey data to theorize about how power dynamics as reflected in housework performance help us understand broader family variations. The authors investigate how knowing who cleans the house explains how households of differing forms, demographics and compositions operate, both cross-sectionally and over the life course of the household.

Contents:

Front cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables

Acknowledgments

1. What do we know about housework?

2. Theorizing housework as an example of power dynamics

3. Describing the data

4. The five classes

5. Housework class characteristics

6. Housework class consequences

7. Stability and change in class membership over time

8. Housework over the family life course

9. Housework and socialization

10. Insights for helping families

Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-3678-X

1-4473-3677-1

1-4473-3679-8

1-4473-3676-3

OCLC:

1140781297