The Unemployed Man and His Family: The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families Updated Edition Contributor(s): Komarovsky, Mirra (Author), Kimmel, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0759107319 ISBN-13: 9780759107311 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $133.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: Noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky interviewed 59 families between 1935-36 to study man's role as economic provider. The result is an unprecedented study of masculinity and depression and the effect of social institutions on the individual. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies |
Dewey: 301.421 |
LCCN: 73120637 |
Series: Classics in Gender Studies |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.98 lbs) 186 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed 59 families in 1935-36 in which the male had been unemployed for at least a year. Interestingly, in many cases, the husband's struggle in the economic sphere did not offset the solidity and happiness of the marital relationship. But unemployment seems to have affected the men's sense of their own position as head of household and providers. For one thing, it undermined their sense of themselves as breadwinners. Most found it unbearably humiliating to accept relief. Perhaps her most important finding-which still resonates today-was that those men who thought of themselves exclusively as providers suffered far more than those who had developed alternative identities as father and husband. |