Gender, Power and the Household [Paperback]

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ; dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors THEORETICAL ISSUES Gender and the Household; L.McKie, S.Bowlby and S.Gregory Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations; D.Morgan GENDERED CARE Men in the Household: Caring Fathers; V.Duindan Roles and Responsibilities for Food Within Families; S.Gregory The Negotiation of Coping: Gender and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage; J.Seymour GENDERED TIME AND SPACE A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Professional Mothers; J.Stephens Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid School Work; K.Standing 'Oh Please Mum. Oh Please Dad': Negotiating Children's Spatial Boundaries; G.Valentine Intra-Household Power Relations and Their Impact on Women's Leisure; S.Gilroy GENDERED WORK, INCOME AND POWER Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage; S.Arber Decision-Making in Dual Career Households; I.Hardill, A.Dudleston and D.Owen Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, and Resource Allocation in Self Employed Households; A.Corden and T.Eardley IndexSARA ARBER Department of Sociology, University of SurreyANN CORDEN Social Policy Research Unit, University of YorkANNA DUDLESTON Nottingham Trent UniversityVINCENT DUINDAN Department of Social Sciences, University of UtrechtTONY EARDLEY Social Policy Research Unit, University of YorkSARAH GILROY West Sussex Institute of Higher EducationANNElsH