Shani Orgad

Heading Home

Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality

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Produktbeschreibung

Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and womenâ s experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 554g
• ISBN-13: 9780231184724
• ISBN-10: 0231184727
• Artikelnr.: 52823331

Autorenporträt

Shani Orgad

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Heading Home: Forced Choices
1. Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture
2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes
Part II: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices
3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO
4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives
Part III: Heading Where? Curbed Desires
5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire
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