Although caregiving is predominantly women's work, care for the elderly is largely absent from the feminist agenda in this country. This title presents a report that describes the experience of caregiving from the perspective of adult daughters. It traces the history of family caregiving in the US since 1800.

Reveals the strategies that experienced waitresses employ to improve their own positions rather than aspiring towards management. This book confronts stereotypical characterizations of waitresses through the voices of some aggressive, determined, tough, and resilient women.

Women who grow up in poor families begin childbearing at a younger age than nonpoor women, attain less education, work less, earn less, are dependent on federal aid, have less support from a husband, have more children, and spend more time as single mothers. This book reveals the relationship between Black teenage mothers and the welfare system.

Explores the ways in which family life is gendered and reflect on the work of maintaining family and kin relationships, especially as social and family power structures change. This book includes guidance to topics from Adoption and African-American Families to Work-Family Tensions and Working-Class Families.

When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest. In an era of intensified globalization, when populations, cultures, and capital move across the boundaries of nation-states in multiple forms and directions, the concept of a subnational region seems parochial and out of date. But, Smith argues, it is precisely because of the historical construction of the secessionist South as an embattled region when all manners of social problems tend to be blamed on poor women and children and...

Untidy Gender takes readers into the interconnected worlds of Turkish maids and the women who employ them, tracing the incorporation of rural migrant women into the interiors of the domestic spheres of the urban middle classes. Firmly grounded in data collected through a representative survey of 160 domestic workers, in-depth interviews, and participant observation in the kinship-based communities of domestic workers, this book forges a new understanding of the complex interaction between gender and class subordination.

Ozyegin traces the lives of two kinds of workers: those from the...

The past is more relevant to the present than we often believe. There are historical roots to seemingly new concerns, frequently raised as social problems, which connect the beginning and the end of the twentieth century.

For example, ethnic enclaves, which provided employment networks for women, existed in domestic work long before their recent rediscovery among ethnic men. Female-headed households and single mothers have also been around for a long time, but in 1900 they had to support themselves in the absence of large state or federal welfare programs.

By creatively re-analyzing...