Description: Unbending Gender : Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It, Paperback by Williams, Joan, ISBN 0195147146, ISBN-13 9780195147148, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK 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 hasnt 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 womens earning power.
Williams shows that workplaces are designed around mens bodies and life patterns in ways that discriminate against women, and that the work/family system that results is terrible for men, worse for women, and worst of all for children. She proposes a set of practical policies and legal
initiatives to reorganize the two realms of work in employment and households--so that men and women can lead healthier and more productive personal and work lives. Williams introduces a new reconstructive feminism that places class, race, and gender conflicts among women at center stage. Her
solution is an inclusive, family-friendly feminism that supports both mothers and fathers as caregivers and as workers.
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Book Title: Unbending Gender : Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do Ab
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do about It
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: Zoology
Item Height: 203 mm
Item Weight: 489 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Joan Williams
Subject Area: Social Work, Gender Issues, Economic Sociology
Item Width: 135 mm
Format: Paperback