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Women, work, and family : balancing and weaving /
This examination of the extraordinary juggling skills of working women who balance obligations to work & family goes beyond description of possible conflicts of interest to seek an understanding of the decision-making process through which they accomplish this balancing.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
©2001.
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| Colección: | Understanding families ;
v. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction and History of Women's Labor Force Participation
- Balancing and Weaving
- Theoretical Perspectives
- The Power of Ideology
- A Look Ahead
- History of Women's Labor Force Participation
- Subsistence Cultures
- Agricultural Era
- The Industrial Era
- Racial and Ethnic Diversity
- Patterns in the 20th Century
- Ideologies of Motherhood: Content and the Dominant Model
- Therborn's Writings on Ideology
- Ideology as a Concept
- Ideology and Individual Agency
- Ideology as a Framework
- Ideology as a Social Process
- The Power of Ideology
- Content of Ideologies of Motherhood
- Intensive Mothering
- Competing Ideologies of Motherhood
- Systems of Discourse
- Family Interactions
- Expert Testimony
- Nonexpert High-Profile Testimony
- Balancing and Weaving to Be a "Good" Mother
- Ideal Types
- Pinching Pennies: The Story of Cheryl, a Conformist
- Entitled to Work: The Case of Emily, a Nonconformist
- Trying to Balance It All: The Story of Tammy, a Pragmatist
- I'm the Breadwinner: The Case of Bobbi, a Pragmatist
- Nonoverlapping Shift Work: The Case of Jean, an Innovator
- Working From Home: The Case of Haley, an Innovator
- Taking the Children to Work: The Case of Kate, an Innovator
- Theoretical Paradigms for Understanding Maternal Labor Force Participation
- Structural-Functionalist Paradigm
- Rational Choice Paradigms
- New Home Economics and Human Capital Theory
- Sociostructural perspectives
- Economic Need
- Occupational Opportunity
- Child Care Costs
- Family Size.