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Not-so-nuclear Families: Class, Gender, And Networks Of Care - Couverture souple

Hansen, Karen V.

 
9780813535012: Not-so-nuclear Families: Class, Gender, And Networks Of Care
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0813535018 ISBN 13 : 9780813535012
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2004

Synopsis

In recent years U.S. public policy has focused on strengthening the nuclear family as a primary strategy for improving the lives of America's youth. It is often assumed that this normative type of family is an independent, self-sufficient unit adequate for raising children. But half of all households in the United States with young children have two employed parents. How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need?

In Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care, Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. She chronicles the conflicts, hardships, and triumphs of four families of various social classes. Each must navigate the ideology that mandates that parents, mothers in particular, rear their own children, in the face of an economic reality that requires that parents rely on the help of others. In vivid family stories, parents detail how they and their networks of friends, paid caregivers, and extended kin collectively close the "care gap" for their school-aged children.

Hansen not only debunks the myth that families in the United States are independent, isolated, and self-reliant units, she breaks new theoretical ground by asserting that informal networks of care can potentially provide unique and valuable bonds that nuclear families cannot.

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À propos de l'auteur

KAREN V. HANSEN is an associate professor of sociology and women's studies at Brandeis University and is the co-editor of Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813535018
ISBN 13 
9780813535012
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
288
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