Unresolved Dilemmas: Women, Work and the Family in the United States, Europe and the Former Soviet Union

ISBN-13: 9781138360662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 244 str.

Faisa Kauppinen; Tuula Gordon

Opis

Originally printed in 1997. Women are a considerable portion of the labour force. The majority of them also establish relationships and become mothers.

Spis treści

Part One: Setting the question  1. Introduction: Dual roles and beyond  2. The welfare state and social citizenship  3. Remaking the boundaries of women’s citizenship and the dilemma of dependency  Part Two: Women at work and in the family  4. Women, work and emotion, managing jobs and family life  5. Psychological intimacy between women and men at work  6. Russian families past and present  7. Gender and rationality: The case of Estonian women  8. Changes in social structure: Change in the self  Part Three: Unresolved dilemmas  9. Women’s changing lives and the emergence of family policy  10. Inside and outside families  11. Single motherhood: An alternative form of life?  12. Light and heavy culture in American and Japanese advice books for women  13. The unresolved and unsolvable affective dilemmas of career women

O autorze

Kaisa Kauppinen
Tuula Gordon