Second Shift,9780380711574

Second Shift

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780380711574
ISBN10: 0380711575
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-10-01
Publisher(s): Avon Books
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Summary

In this landmark study, sociologist Arlie Hochschild takes us into the homes of two-career parents to observe what really goes on at the end of the "work day." Overwhelmingly, she discovers, it's the working mother who takes on the second shift.Hochschild finds that men share housework equally with their wives in only twenty percent of dual-career families. While many women accept this inequity in order to keep peace, they tend to suffer from chronic exhaustion, low sex drive, and more frequent illness as a result. The ultimate cost is the forfeited health and happiness of both partners, and often the survival of the marriage itself.With a new afterword by the author, this groundbreaking study is as relevant today as when it was first published.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xv
A Speed-up in the Family
1(10)
Marriage in the Stalled Revolution
11(11)
The Cultural Cover-up
22(11)
Joey's Problem
33(26)
Nancy
Evan Holt
The Family Myth of the Traditional
59(16)
Frank
Carmen Delacorte
A Notion of Manhood and Giving Thanks
75(20)
Peter
Nina Tanagawa
Having It All and Giving It Up
95(15)
Ann
Robert Myerson
A Scarcity of Gratitude
110(18)
Seth
Jessica Stein
An Unsteady Marriage and a Job She Loves:
128(14)
Anita
Ray Judson
The ``His'' and ``Hers'' of Sharing:
142(17)
Greg
Carol Alston
No Time Together
159(14)
Barbara
John Livingston
Sharing Showdown and Natural Drift: Pathways to the New Man
173(15)
Beneath the Cover-up: Strategies and Strains
188(16)
Tensions in Marriage in an Age of Divorce
204(12)
Men Who Do and Men Who Don't
216(23)
The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant
239(18)
Stepping into Old Biographies or Making History Happen?
257(14)
Afterword (1990) 271(6)
Afterword (1997) 277(9)
Appendix Research on Who Does the Housework and Childcare 286(8)
Notes 294(11)
Selected Reading 305(12)
Index 317

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