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Publisher | University of California Press |
Year | 09/06/2020 |
Edition | First |
Version | eBook: Fixed Page eTextbook (PDF) |
Language | English |
ISBN | 9780520970670 |
Categories | Sociology: birth, Dating, relationships, living together & marriage |
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.
Crunch Time