Women, Work, and Families : Balancing and Weaving Hardback
by Angela J. Hattery
Hardback
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"Hattery's book is an important contribution to this literature.
The book is engaging and is well written. I would recommend this book and encourage Hattery to continue examination of this construct." - Psychology of Women Quarterly Women, Work, and Family: Balancing and Weaving is a fascinating examination of the extraordinary juggling skills of working mothers who balance their obligations to both work and family.
Angela Hattery goes beyond a mere description of women's conflicts of interest and seeks to understand the decision-making process through which they accomplish this balancing. Through intensive interviews with 30 married women, all with children under 2 years of age, Hattery uncovers a remarkable range of ways in which these women weave together the complex strands of their lives.
The data in the volume are examined from a number of theoretical standpoints, including structural theory, motherhood theory, and feminist theory.
A key variable that runs through the data is economic need, which has an obvious effect on work patterns.
Women, Work, and Family will make a major contribution to family studies and will illuminate the difficult choices that women make within the family/work context.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:16/02/2001
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- ISBN:9780761919360
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication Date:16/02/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780761919360