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Gender, Power and the Household

By: L. McKie (Editor), S. Bowlby (Editor), S. Gregory (Editor)

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Hardcover | 17 May 1999 | Edition Number 1

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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

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List of Tables and Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
Theoretical Issues	p. 1
Connecting Gender, Power and the Household	p. 3
Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations	p. 22
Gendered Care	p. 41
Men in the Household: Caring Fathers	p. 43
Gender Roles and Food in Families	p. 60
Using Gendered Discourses in Negotiations: Couples and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage	p. 76
Gendered Time and Space	p. 97
A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Mothers who Work in Hospital Medicine	p. 99
Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid Schoolwork	p. 116
'Oh Please, Mum. Oh Please, Dad': Negotiating Children's Spatial Boundaries	p. 137
Intra-household Power Relations and their Impact on Women's Leisure	p. 155
Gendered Work, Income and Power	p. 173
Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage	p. 175
Decision Making in Dual-Career Households	p. 192
Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, Work and Resource Allocation in Self-Employed Households	p. 207
Index	p. 226
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