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Married to the Job (RLE Feminist Theory) - Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work (Hardcover)
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Married to the Job (RLE Feminist Theory) - Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
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Married to the Job examines an important but under-researched area:
the relationships of wives to their husbands' work. Janet Finch
looks both at the way women's lives are directly affected by the
work their husbands do and how they can get drawn into it. These
she sees as the two sides of wives' 'incorporation'. Dr Finch
discusses a wide range of occupations, from obvious stereotypes -
services, diplomatic, clergy and political wives - to more subtle
but equally valid shades of involvement - the wives of policemen,
merchant seamen, prison officers, the owners of small businesses
and academics. She stresses that this process is by no means
confined to the wives of professional men; she argues that the
nature of the work done and the way it is organised are more
important pointers to the ways in which wives will be incorporated.
For specific illustrations, Dr Finch draws substantially on her own
original research on wives of the clergy. Married to the Job
clearly shows that marriage itself (not just child-bearing) is an
important feature of women's subordination. Dr Finch points to the
links between husband's work, the family and its relationship to
economic structures, and suggests that wives are tied into those
structures as much as anything through their vicarious involvement
in their husband's work. She views any prospects for change with
caution. The organisation of social and economic life makes it
difficult for wives to break free from this incorporation even
should they wish to; it makes economic good sense for them to
continue in most cases; social life is organised so as to make
compliance easy; and it provides a comprehensible way of being a
wife. As an empirically-based survey of women's subordination
within marriage, Married to the Job will prove essential reading to
all those concerned about the position of women, whether feminists,
academics or general readers. It will also provide important
background material for undergraduate courses on women's studies,
the sociology of the family, the sociology of work and family
policy.
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