Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment Contributor(s): Rao, Aliya Hamid (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520298616 ISBN-13: 9780520298613 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships - Business & Economics | Labor |
Dewey: 331.137 |
LCCN: 2019059486 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 308 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment an urgent problem, while women's unemployment--cocooned within a narrative of staying at home--is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment. |