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Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work - Couverture souple

DeVault, Marjorie L.

 
9780226143606: Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226143600 ISBN 13 : 9780226143606
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

Housework—often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse—contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "feeding the family" from the perspective of those who do that work. Along the way, DeVault offers a new vocabulary for discussing nurturance as a basis of group life and sociability.

Drawing from interviews conducted in 1982-83 in a diverse group of American households, DeVault reveals the effort and skill behind the "invisible" work of shopping, cooking, and serving meals. She then shows how this work can become oppressive for women, drawing them into social relations that construct and maintain their subordinate position in household life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Marjorie L. DeVault is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the Women's Studies Program at Syracuse University.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226143600
ISBN 13 
9780226143606
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
284
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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