Gender, Power and the Household

by L. McKie (Editor), S. Bowlby (Editor), S. Gregory (Editor), Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ; dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333695746
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	05/17/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

SARA ARBER Department of Sociology, University of Surrey ANN CORDEN Social Policy Research Unit, University of York ANNA DUDLESTON Nottingham Trent University VINCENT DUINDAN Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht TONY EARDLEY Social Policy Research Unit, University of York SARAH GILROY West Sussex Institute of Higher Education ANNE C.GREEN University of Warwick I. HARDILL Nottingham Trent University DAVID MORGAN Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester DAVID W. OWEN University of Warwick JULIE SEYMOUR Social Policy and Social Studies, University of Hull K. STANDING Department of Women's Studies, Liverpool John Moores University JANET STEPHENS School of Social Studies, University of Cardiff GILL VALENTINE Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors THEORETICAL ISSUES Gender and the Household; L.McKie, S.Bowlby and S.Gregory Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations; D.Morgan GENDERED CARE Men in the Household: Caring Fathers; V.Duindan Roles and Responsibilities for Food Within Families; S.Gregory The Negotiation of Coping: Gender and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage; J.Seymour GENDERED TIME AND SPACE A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Professional Mothers; J.Stephens Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid School Work; K.Standing 'Oh Please Mum. Oh Please Dad': Negotiating Children's Spatial Boundaries; G.Valentine Intra-Household Power Relations and Their Impact on Women's Leisure; S.Gilroy GENDERED WORK, INCOME AND POWER Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage; S.Arber Decision-Making in Dual Career Households; I.Hardill, A.Dudleston and D.Owen Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, and Resource Allocation in Self Employed Households; A.Corden and T.Eardley Index