Social Science Marriage & Family
A Life in Balance?
Reopening the Family-Work Debate
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jul 2011
- Category
- Marriage & Family, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774819688
- Publish Date
- Jul 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774819671
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774819695
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Magazine articles, talk shows, and commercials advise us that our happiness and well-being rest on striking a balance between work and family. It goes unsaid, however, that the advice is based on an outmoded and unrealistic ideal. This provocative volume challenges the notion – often offered in support of neo-liberal agendas – that paid work (employment) and unpaid work (caregiving and housework) are separate and competing spheres, rather than overlapping aspects of a single existence. Alternative approaches to integrating work and family must be taken into account if we hope to build truly equitable family and childcare policies.
About the authors
Catherine Krull is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair in the Department of Sociology at Queen’s University.
