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Wifework

Author : Susan Maushart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596919523
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Wifework written by Susan Maushart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wifework is a fiercely argued, in-depth look at the inequitable division of labor between husbands and wives. Bolstering her own personal experience as a twice-married mother of three with substantial research and broad statistical evidence, Susan Maushart explores the theoretical and evolutionary reasons behind marriage inequality. She forces us to consider why 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce, and why women are responsible for initiating three-quarters of them. If family life is worth saving, and Maushart passionately believes it is, the job description for wives will have to be rewritten. Susan Maushart was born in New York and has lived in Australia since 1985. Her first book, Sort of a Place Like Home, won a Festival Award for Literature at the Adelaide Festival in 1994, and her second, The Mask of Motherhood, was published to international acclaim. She is a senior research associate at Curtin University, a columnist for the Australian Magazine and lives in Perth with her three children. 'An often funny dissection of modern marriage...100 percent honest. [A] smart and witty book.' -Publishers Weekly 'With good-humored aplomb, Maushart makes clear she doesn't think marriage or men are "rotten", but that "the way we typically divide up the business-and the pleasure, too-of our adult relationships is inefficient, maladaptive, and unfair.'-Bookpage 'Maushart assembles an overwhelming amount of data documenting how marriage has perpetuated inequities between husband and wife.'-Christian Science Monitor Daily 'Susan Maushart's heartfelt and incendiary Wifework is a brief against traditional marriage that took me back to the galvanizing effect of reading Friedan.' -Salon.com 'A wake-up call for women feeling trapped by marriage.'-Booklist

The Smart Wife

Author : Yolande Strengers
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026254279X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book The Smart Wife written by Yolande Strengers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her "master" helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out "wifework"--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife "manifesta," proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity.

Einstein's Wife

Author : Andrea Gabor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Einstein's Wife written by Andrea Gabor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What allowed a small group of remarkable twentieth-century women to pursue, against all odds, exceptionally rich lives of both work and marriage? Inspired by her generation's experiences juggling career and home life, journalist Andrea Gabor set out to define the unique stuff of which great women are made and chart the often tangled territory in which love and ambition intersect. In intimate portraits we meet: Mileva Maric Einstein, the scientist whose marriage to Einstein began with a shared passion for physics and ended in tragedy; Lee Krasner, a gifted artist who helped cement the reputation of her husband, Jackson Pollock, before making her own mark; Maria Goeppert Mayer, who raised two children while doing landmark scientific research, but couldn't get a paying job until shortly before winning the Nobel Prize; Renowned architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown, who has struggled for years to emerge from the shadow of her famous husband, the architect Robert Venturi; Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who describes, in a series of unprecedentedly personal interviews, her commitment to family life as she rose in politics and the judiciary."--Back cover.

Unemployment Compensation

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Unemployment Compensation written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unemployment Compensation

Author : United States. National Commission on Unemployment Compensation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Unemployment Compensation written by United States. National Commission on Unemployment Compensation and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wives and Work

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231556705
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Wives and Work written by Marion Holmes Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives’ purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the “oppressed Muslim woman” by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s. In Wives and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics. She reconstructs a complex discussion among Sunni legal scholars of the ninth to fourteenth centuries CE and examines its wide-ranging implications. As early as the ninth century, the prevalent doctrine that wives had no legal duty to do housework stood in conflict with what most scholars understood to be morally and religiously right. Scholars’ efforts to resolve this tension ranged widely, from drawing a clear distinction between legal claims and ethical ideals to seeking a synthesis of the two. Katz positions legal discussion within a larger landscape of Islamic normative discourse, emphasizing how legal models diverge from, but can sometimes be informed by, philosophical ethics. Through the lens of wives’ domestic labor, this book sheds new light on notions of family, labor, and gendered personhood as well as the interplay between legal and ethical doctrines in Islamic thought.

Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities, Work

Author : Hallstein Lynn O'Brien
Publisher : Demeter Press
ISBN 13 : 1772582484
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Wives: Roles, Representations, Identities, Work written by Hallstein Lynn O'Brien and published by Demeter Press. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume opens an innovative space for critical discussion, and production of new imaginaries within, feminist scholarship, analysis and feminist politics, about what is and has been meant by, involved in, required of, and what it means to be, a “wife.” Contributions within this volume together critically explore and tease out, intersections, overlaps, and distinctions between the social categories of wife and mother, and the link, and separate, labours of wife-work and maternal caregiving labour. This volume brings together diverse critical perspectives through creative contributions, personal narratives, and scholarly works. Chapters discuss critical theorizing about roles, representations, identities, and work associated with being a “wife.”

Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids

Author : Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773513094
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Wives and Mothers, School Mistresses and Scullery Maids written by Elizabeth Jane Errington and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging analysis of the contribution of working women to Upper Canadian Society, Jane Errington argues that the role of Upper Canadian women in the overall economy of the early colonial society has been greatly undervalued by contemporary historians.

Wives and Warriors

Author : Laurie Weinstein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313029571
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Wives and Warriors written by Laurie Weinstein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the women who serve the military as wives and those who serve as soldiers, sailors, and flyers. Comparing wives and warriors in the U.S. and Canada, it examines how the military in both countries constructs gender to exclude women from being respected as equals to men. Written by a wide range of scholars and military personnel, the book covers such contemporary issues as the opening of military academies to women, the opening of combat posts to women, the experience of being a wife in the two-person career of an officer-husband, sexual harassment, turnover of women in the armed services, and U.S. and Canadian policies allowing gays and lesbians to serve in the military. Part of an emerging feminist scholarship in military studies, this work also explores how gender has been constructed to maintain the status quo and women's narrowly defined roles as the dependent helpmates of men.

The Jilted Wives Club Trilogy

Author : Bethany Lopez
Publisher : Bethany Lopez
ISBN 13 : 1954655258
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book The Jilted Wives Club Trilogy written by Bethany Lopez and published by Bethany Lopez. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boxset of the Jilted Wives Club, Books 1-3, by Bethany Lopez, including Starter Wife, Trophy Wife, and Work Wife. Starter Wife - Divorced and jobless at forty-something, Whitney never thought she’d be starting over and nothing has prepared her for Luca. Trophy Wife - Summer wants to prove she’s more than a Trophy Wife. Sure, she’s sexy, sweet, and has a body that won’t quit, but she’s so much more, and she’ll do whatever it takes to prove it to Noah. Work Wife - Margo will never be a Work Wife again, but there’s something about Aiden that makes her want to let down some walls and see what happens.

Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers

Author : Alena Amato Ruggerio
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739177095
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers written by Alena Amato Ruggerio and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the communication discipline to their analyses of how television, film, news coverage, and the Internet shape our expectations of the performance of women’s identities. This collection includes studies of Bridezillas, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Sex and the City, Sarah Palin, Nancy Pelosi, The Devil Wears Prada, Practical Magic, “momtini” blogs, and Mad Men fan websites. Readers will learn to apply the insights from each chapter to their own sets of myths, stereotypes, and assumptions about gendered roles, and to recognize the possibilities for both liberation and domination when women’s practices of marrying, mating, and mothering are represented and misrepresented in the media. This collection is an essential contribution to media studies and criticism of gender stereotypes in contemporary culture.

Wives who Earn More Than Their Husbands

Author : Suzanne M. Bianchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Wives who Earn More Than Their Husbands written by Suzanne M. Bianchi and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report on wage differentials within dual career couples in the USA during 1981 - examines trends in husband's and wife's employment status and wage structure according to ethnic group, educational level, occupational status, home ownership, etc. Graphs and references.

Families and the Rise of Working Wives

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Families and the Rise of Working Wives written by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Three Wives

Author : Beatrice Kean Seymour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Three Wives written by Beatrice Kean Seymour and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047542
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strong Mothers, Weak Wives

Author : Miriam M. Johnson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520061620
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Strong Mothers, Weak Wives written by Miriam M. Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For years I have been impressed by the originality and insight of Johnson's articles on gender, sexuality, and male dominance. This book continues and expands the excellent quality of the earlier work. . . [It] provides an original argument about the central structural locus of gender inequality, and makes a major advance in its insightful and insistent focus on the role of the father in gender differentiation and sexual dominance. . . . It will surely be recognized as a major work of feminist theory."—Nancy Chodorow, author of The Reproduction of Mothering "This thoughtful and provocative book greatly deepens the debate over the effects of mothers and fathers on their children."—Arlie Hochschild, author of The Second Shift: Inside the Two-Job Marriage

What Women Want Next

Author : Susan Maushart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918535
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book What Women Want Next written by Susan Maushart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the choices available to today's women, why don't they more feel fulfilled? What Women Want Next is Susan Maushart's meditation-by turns profound and laugh-out-loud funny-on that central dilemma of postfeminist life. At one point she had it all, so why wasn't she happy? With What Women Want Next, Maushart combines research with personal history in a dynamic attempt to answer this question. Feminism may have led women to life's banquet table, but the meal they make of it is up to them. How to balance life and work, sex and sleep, child care and self-care? And why has women's guilt-that glass ceiling of the soul-become the biggest barrier they face? What Women Want Next is the first book to look at the spectrum of a woman's life and attempt to demonstrate how she can shape her own destiny throughout all its stages.