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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Life in balance? Vancouver ; Toranto : UBC Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2011389953 (OCoLC)676689865 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Krull; Justyna Sempruch |
ISBN: | 9780774819695 0774819693 1283054361 9781283054362 9786613054364 6613054364 |
OCLC Number: | 757913984 |
Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 270 pages) |
Contents: | Part 3: Feminist-Informed Family Initiatives and Family Visions -- Beyond the "Cultural" Landscape of Care: Queering Childcare, Caregiver, and Work / Justyna Sempruch -- Working-Time Regimes, Flexibility, and Work-Life Balance: Gender Equality and Families / Judy Fudge -- The Increasing Invisibility of Mothering / Margaret Hillyard Little -- Epilogue : A Feminist Vision for Caring-Employment Integration in Canada / Susan A. McDaniel. Part 2: Integrating Family and Work -- Work, Care, Resistance, and Mothering: An Indigenous Perspective / Donna Baines and Bonnie Freeman -- "I Am the Patient and Compassionate Cashier" : Learning through Unpaid Household Work for Paid Work / Margrit Eichler -- Employment in the New Economy and the Impact on Canadian Families / Ann Duffy and Norene Pupo -- What Impedes Fathers' Participation in Care Work? Theorizing the Community as an Institutional Arena / Andrea Doucet -- Addressing the Interlocking Complexity of Paid Work and Care: Lessons from Changing Family Policy in Quebec / Patrizia Albanese. Introduction : Diversifying the Model, Demystifying the Approach: The Work-Family Debate Reopened / Catherine Krull and Justyna Sempruch -- Part 1: Transcending the Prevailing Myths -- Destabilizing the Nuclear Family Ideal: Thinking beyond Essentialisms, Universalism, and Binaries / Catherine Krull -- Intergenerational Care Work: Mothering, Grandmothering, and Eldercare / Nancy Mandell and Sue Wilson -- Maternal Employment, Childcare, and Public Policy / Maureen Baker. |
Responsibility: | edited by Catherine Krull and Justyna Sempruch. |
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Abstract:
This volume brings together feminist scholars from multiple disciplines to challenge the notion that work and family are two distinct areas of life in need of balance.
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