9780226143606-0226143600-Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work (Women in Culture and Society)

Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work (Women in Culture and Society)

ISBN-13: 9780226143606
ISBN-10: 0226143600
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marjorie L. DeVault
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 284 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780226143606
ISBN-10: 0226143600
Edition: Reprint
Author: Marjorie L. DeVault
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Format: Paperback 284 pages

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Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work (Women in Culture and Society) (ISBN-13: 9780226143606 and ISBN-10: 0226143600), written by authors Marjorie L. DeVault, was published by University of Chicago Press in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Social Sciences books. You can easily purchase or rent Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work (Women in Culture and Society) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Social Sciences books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.4.

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Housework—often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse—contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of "feeding the family" from the perspective of those who do that work. Along the way, DeVault offers a new vocabulary for discussing nurturance as a basis of group life and sociability.

Drawing from interviews conducted in 1982-83 in a diverse group of American households, DeVault reveals the effort and skill behind the "invisible" work of shopping, cooking, and serving meals. She then shows how this work can become oppressive for women, drawing them into social relations that construct and maintain their subordinate position in household life.

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