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Weaving Work and Motherhood
Anita Ilta Garey
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Description for Weaving Work and Motherhood
Paperback. Focuses on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers clerical workers, janitorial workers, nurses, and nurse's aids, this title analyzes what it means to be at once a mother who is employed and a worker with children. Series: Women in the Political Economy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JHBL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 349.
In American culture, the image of balancing work and family life is often represented in the glossy shot of the executive-track woman balancing cell-phone, laptop, and baby. In Weaving Work and Motherhood, Anita Ilta Garey focuses not on the corporate executives so frequently represented in American ads and magazines but, rather, on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. A sociologist and work and family expert, Garey situates her research in the health service industry. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers -- ... Read more
In American culture, the image of balancing work and family life is often represented in the glossy shot of the executive-track woman balancing cell-phone, laptop, and baby. In Weaving Work and Motherhood, Anita Ilta Garey focuses not on the corporate executives so frequently represented in American ads and magazines but, rather, on the women in jobs that typify the vast majority of women's employment in the United States. A sociologist and work and family expert, Garey situates her research in the health service industry. Interviewing a racially and ethnically diverse group of women hospital workers -- ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Women in the Political Economy
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566397001
SKU
V9781566397001
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Ref
99-1
About Anita Ilta Garey
Anita Ilta Garey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, is co-editor of Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics, also published by Temple.
Reviews for Weaving Work and Motherhood
"Path-breaking, brilliant, and a pleasure to read. The idea that women will be either career or home oriented is one that is long overdue for re-examination." -Arlene Kaplan Daniels, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University "Anita Ilta Garey carves out new terrain by unifying the study of work and family in women's lives. Rich in detail about working mothers' ... Read more