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A Life in Balance?: Reopening the Family-Work Debate [Hardcover]

Catherine Krull (Editor), Justyna Sempruch (Editor)

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Publication Date: Feb 28 2011
Magazine articles, talk shows, and commercials advise us that our happiness and well-being rest on striking a balance between work and family. It goes unsaid, however, that the advice is based on an outmoded and unrealistic ideal. This provocative volume challenges the notion – often offered in support of neo-liberal agendas – that paid work (employment) and unpaid work (caregiving and housework) are separate and competing spheres, rather than overlapping aspects of a single existence. Alternative approaches to integrating work and family must be taken into account if we hope to build truly equitable family and childcare policies.

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A Life in Balance? challenges the idea that work and family are separate and competing spheres rather than aspects of a single existence.

About the Author

Catherine Krull is an associate professor in the department of Sociology and the Cultural Studies program at Queen’s University, cross-appointed to Women’s Studies, and is an associate dean in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Justyna Sempruch is a researcher at the Center for Gender Studies, University of Basel, Switzerland.

Contributors: Patrizia Albanese, Donna Baines, Maureen Baker, Andrea Doucet, Ann Duffy, Margrit Eichler, Bonnie Freeman, Judy Fudge, Margaret Hillyard Little, Nancy Mandell, Susan A. McDaniel, Norene Pupo, Sue Wilson

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