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Sociology of Housework

Ann Oakley

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Description:This book will be compulsive reading for anyone interested in issues affecting women's liberation. It is a study which challenges both the conventional trivialisation of housework and also the sociological neglect of housework as a serious topic - a neglect which is rooted in the fundamental sexism of sociology.In sociology women tend to be studied either in their family roles - as wives and mothers - or as workers outside the home, but the role of unpaid domestic worker has not been studied seriously or systematically. This book examines the conventional treatment of women in sociology and analyses interviews with forty young urban housewives. It covers such areas as women's perceptions of housework and of themselves as housewives, the feeling sof monotony and fragmentation among housewives; attitudes to different household tasks; the length of a housewife's working week; the importance of housework standards and routines as a way of ensuring housework gets done, and as a means of providing 'self reward' in housework. An assessment is made of the extent to which women are satisfied or dissatisfied with housework, and class similarities and differences are discussed. The influence of upbringing on women's domesticity is charted, and the divison of labour between the housewife and her husband in the home is analysed; the difficulties of combining housework with motherhood are examined.The importance of the book lies in the correction of the traditional view that women 'work' outside the home but not inside it; it adopts an entirely novel approach to women's family role by analysing housework as a job, analogous to any other kind of work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sociology of Housework. To get started finding Sociology of Housework, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book will be compulsive reading for anyone interested in issues affecting women's liberation. It is a study which challenges both the conventional trivialisation of housework and also the sociological neglect of housework as a serious topic - a neglect which is rooted in the fundamental sexism of sociology.In sociology women tend to be studied either in their family roles - as wives and mothers - or as workers outside the home, but the role of unpaid domestic worker has not been studied seriously or systematically. This book examines the conventional treatment of women in sociology and analyses interviews with forty young urban housewives. It covers such areas as women's perceptions of housework and of themselves as housewives, the feeling sof monotony and fragmentation among housewives; attitudes to different household tasks; the length of a housewife's working week; the importance of housework standards and routines as a way of ensuring housework gets done, and as a means of providing 'self reward' in housework. An assessment is made of the extent to which women are satisfied or dissatisfied with housework, and class similarities and differences are discussed. The influence of upbringing on women's domesticity is charted, and the divison of labour between the housewife and her husband in the home is analysed; the difficulties of combining housework with motherhood are examined.The importance of the book lies in the correction of the traditional view that women 'work' outside the home but not inside it; it adopts an entirely novel approach to women's family role by analysing housework as a job, analogous to any other kind of work.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sociology of Housework. To get started finding Sociology of Housework, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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