Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds

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Contents Preface vii Naomi Gerstel, Dan Clawson, and Robert Zussman Part One Family Labor and the Construction of Gender 1 1. Being the “Go-To Guy”: Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Organization of Work in Silicon Valley 5 Marianne Cooper 2. My Wife Can Tell Me Who I Know: Methodological and Conceptual Problems in Studying Fathers 32 Annette Lareau 3. Constructing Gender and Occupational Segregation: A Study of Women and Work in Fishing Communities 59 Carrie L. Yodanis 4. Domesticity and the Political Economy of Lesbigay Families 82 Christopher Carrington Part Two Employment and the Care of Children 109 5. Halving It All: The Mother and Mr. Mom 113 Francine Deutsch 6. I’m Here, but I’m There: The Meanings of Transnational Motherhood 139 Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila 7. Using Kin for Childcare: Embedment in the Socioeconomic Networks of Extended Families 162 Lynet Uttal 8. Work-Family Issues of Mothers of Teenage Children 181 Demie Kurz vi Families at Work Part Three Family,Community,and Social Context 199 9. Black Picket Fences: Growing Up in Groveland 203 Mary Pattillo-McCoy 10. Single Mothers and Social Support: The Commitment to, and Retreat from, Reciprocity 225 Margaret K. Nelson 11. The Third Shift: Gender and Care Work Outside the Home 251 Naomi Gerstel 12. Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Activity Beyond the Home 266 Marjorie L. DeVault Part Four Policy,Politics,and Working Families 285 13. Challenges for Studying Care after AFDC 289 Stacey Oliker 14. Living with Violence: Women’s Reliance on Abusive Men in Their Transitions from Welfare to Work 302 Ellen K. Scott, Andrew S. London, and Nancy A. Myers 15. Unions’ Responses to Family Concerns 317 Naomi Gerstel and Dan Clawson 16. The Contradictory Effects of Work and Family on Political Activism 343 Rebecca E. Klatch Contributors 357 ...