In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work—that it’s a requirement for men and optional for women—loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men’s unemployment an urgent problem, while women’s unemployment—cocooned within a narrative of staying at home—is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780520298606
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-520-29860-6
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 09.06.2020
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2020
- Produktform: Gebunden, Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 552 g
- Seiten: 308
- Format (B x H x T): 236 x 165 x 28 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt