Inventing the Working Parent
Work, Gender, and Feminism in Neoliberal Britain
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2023
Summary
The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century-and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work-life balance” came to be.
Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the middle-class, dual-income household, we have entered a new era in the history of everyday life—the era of the w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262546102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262546108 |
| Author: | Sarah E. Stoller |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Sarah E. Stoller
Sarah E. Stoller is a historian and freelance writer. Her writing on care work, feminism, gender, and motherhood as well as popular culture and the crisis of higher education has appeared in Slate, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon Magazine, Salon, Jezebel, the Washington Post, and History Workshop Journal.
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