Halving it all : how equally shared parenting works /
Deutsch, Francine, 1948-,
Halving it all : how equally shared parenting works / [print] Francine M. Deutsch. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1999. - 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Why not equality? -- Creating equality at home -- Creating Inequality at home -- Fighting over practice and principle -- Friends and foes -- Babies, breastfeeding, bonding, and biology -- Career detours -- Why couples don't practice what they preach -- mother and Mr. Mom -- Constructing identities as parents and professionals -- Equality works -- How I did the study.
Halving It All takes the discussion beyond shrill ideological arguments about working mothers and absent fathers. Deutsch shows how, with the best of intentions, people perpetuate inequalities and injustices on the home front, but also, and more important, how they can devise more equal arrangements - out of explicit principles, or simply out of fairness and love.
98030738
GB99-24634
Parenting.
Sex role.
Dual-career families.
Child rearing.
HQ755.D486.H358 1999
Halving it all : how equally shared parenting works / [print] Francine M. Deutsch. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)1999. - 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Why not equality? -- Creating equality at home -- Creating Inequality at home -- Fighting over practice and principle -- Friends and foes -- Babies, breastfeeding, bonding, and biology -- Career detours -- Why couples don't practice what they preach -- mother and Mr. Mom -- Constructing identities as parents and professionals -- Equality works -- How I did the study.
Halving It All takes the discussion beyond shrill ideological arguments about working mothers and absent fathers. Deutsch shows how, with the best of intentions, people perpetuate inequalities and injustices on the home front, but also, and more important, how they can devise more equal arrangements - out of explicit principles, or simply out of fairness and love.
98030738
GB99-24634
Parenting.
Sex role.
Dual-career families.
Child rearing.
HQ755.D486.H358 1999