Heading Home : : Motherhood, Work, and the Failed Promise of Equality / / Shani Orgad.
Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engi...
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| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART 1: Heading Home: Forced Choices
- CHAPTER 1. Choice and Confidence Culture/ Toxic Work Culture
- CHAPTER 2. The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes
- PART 2: Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices
- CHAPTER 3. Cupcake Mom/Family CEO
- CHAPTER 4. Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives
- PART 3: Heading Where? Curbed Desires
- CHAPTER 5. The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire
- CHAPTER 6. Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains
- Conclusion: Impatience
- Appendix 1: Interviewees' Key Characteristics
- Appendix 2: List of Media and Policy Representations
- Appendix 3: Study Methodology
- Appendix 4: Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers
- Notes
- Index