Karen V Hansen

Not-So-Nuclear Families

Class, Gender, and Networks of Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. The book concludes with a series of policy suggestions intended to improve the environment in which working families raise children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780813535012
• ISBN-10: 0813535018
• Artikelnr.: 13831954

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Networks of Interdependence in an Age of Independence
Part I. Profiles of Four Networks of Interdependence
Chapter 2. The Cranes: An Absorbent Safety Net
Chapter 3. The Aldriches: A Family Foundation
Chapter 4. The Duvall-Brennans: A Loose Association of Advisors
Chapter 5. The Beckers: A Warm Web of People
Part II. Constructing and Maintaining Networks
Chapter 6. Staging Networks: Inclusion and Exclusion
Chapter 7. The Tangle of Reciprocity
Chapter 8. Men, Women, and the Gender of Caregiving 
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index