Crunch Time - How Married Couples Confront Unemployment (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Aliya Hamid Rao
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	308
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-29860-6
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Family & other relationships > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	0-520-29860-8
Barcode:	9780520298606

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