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Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It [NOOK Book]
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| Preface: What This Book Is About | IX | |
| Acknowledgments | XI | |
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Part I | Unbending Gender in Social Life | 11 |
| Chapter 1 | Is Domesticity Dead? | 13 |
| Chapter 2 | From Full Commodification to Reconstructive Feminism | 40 |
| Chapter 3 | Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Market Work | 64 |
| Chapter 4 | Deconstructing the Ideal-Worker Norm in Family Entitlements | 114 |
| Part II | Unbending Gender Talk (Including Feminism) | 143 |
| Chapter 5 | How Domesticity's Gender Wars Take on Elements of Class and Race Conflict | 145 |
| Chapter 6 | Do Women Share an Ethic of Care?: Domesticity's Descriptions of Men and Women | 177 |
| Chapter 7 | Do Women Need Special Treatment? Do Feminists Need Equality? | 205 |
| Chapter 8 | The New Paradigm Theorized: Domesticity in Drag | 243 |
| Four Themes of Conclusion | 271 | |
| Notes | 277 | |
| Index | 334 |
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In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of families and, in divorce cases, recognition of the value of family work and its impact on women's earning power.Williams shows that workplaces are designed around men's bodies and life patterns in ways that discriminate against women, and that the work/family system that results is terrible for men, ...