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	A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life by Neil Gilbert
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Product Details Binding Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number 306.8743 EAN 9780300119671 ISBN 0300119674 Manufacturer Yale University Press Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 240 Publication Date April 28, 2008 Publisher Yale University Press Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven’t looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers. A Mother’s Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, which have helped to alter family life since the 1960s. It challenges the conventional view on how to balance motherhood and employment, and examines how the choices women make are influenced by the culture of capitalism, feminist expectations, and the social policies of the welfare state. Gilbert argues that while the market ignores the essential value of a mother’s work, prevailing norms about the social benefits of work have been overvalued by elites whose opportunities and circumstances little resemble those of most working- and middle-class mothers. And the policies that have been crafted too often seem friendlier to the market than to the family. Gilbert ends his discussion by looking at the issue internationally, and he makes the case for reframing the debate to include a wider range of social values and public benefits that present more options for managing work and family responsibilities. 'An excellent book, well written and accessible, controversial and careful. Gilbert does a terrific job of looking beneath the data to consider what they really tell us.'-Anne Alstott, Yale Law School, author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Their Children and What Society Owes Parents (Anne Alstott ) 'A compelling, objective study by one of America's leading public intellectuals, this book should trigger a serious debate about what is in the best interests of children.'-David Popenoe, Rutgers University, author of Life without Father (David Popenoe ) 'A groundbreaking book, A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market and Policy Shape Family Life, reconsiders traditional views on motherhood. Through his examination of the average middle class mom, Gilbert provides cutting edge analysis of a mother's value in the market economy.'-Sylvia Ann Hewlett, author of Off-Ramps and On Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success, President of the Center for Work-Life Policy (Sylvia Ann Hewlett ) The question of how best to combine work and family life has led to lively debates in recent years. Both a lifestyle and a policy issue, it has been addressed psychologically, socially, and economically, and conclusions have been hotly contested. But as Neil Gilbert shows in this penetrating and provocative book, we haven’t looked closely enough at how and why these questions are framed, or who benefits from the proposed answers. A Mother’s Work takes a hard look at the unprecedented rise in childlessness, along with the outsourcing of family care and household production, which have helped to alter family life since the 1960s. It challenges the conventional view on how to balance motherhood and employment, and examines how the choices women make are influenced by the culture of capitalism, feminist expectations, and the social policies of the welfare state. Gilbert argues that while the market ignores the essential value of a mother’s work, prevailing norms about the social benefits of work have been overvalued by elites whose opportunities and circumstances little resemble those of most working- and middle-class mothers. And the policies that have been crafted too often seem friendlier to the market than to the family. Gilbert ends his discussion by looking at the issue internationally, and he makes the case for reframing the debate to include a wider range of social values and public benefits that present more options for managing work and family responsibilities. Neil Gilbert is Milton and Gertrude Chernin Professor of Social Welfare and Social Services at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including Welfare Justice, published by Yale University Press, and his writing on public policy issues has appeared in Commentary, Society, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. He lives in Orinda, CA. Customers who bought this item also bought Get to Work: . . . And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home FEMININE MISTAKE, THE: ARE WE GIVING UP TOO MUCH? Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility Mothers on the Fast Track: How a New Generation Can Balance Family and Careers See all books by author Neil Gilbert

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