Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work

(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)

by Marjorie L. Devault

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Housework--often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse--contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "feeding the family" from the perspective of those who do that work. Along the way, DeVault offers a new vocabulary for discussing nurturance as a basis of group life and sociability.

Drawing from interviews...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226143597

ISBN13:9780226143590

Release Date:October 1991

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:284 Pages

Weight:1.25 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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