Gender at Home

A text about change in gender practices around the domestic division of labour. Within a theoretical framework for analyzing change, the book combines a thorough investigation of the evidence for changes in men and women's domestic labour and for changes in the wider discursive environment. Beginning with a discussion of empirical evidence, and the slow mechanisms of change that it suggests, "Gender at Home" brings together arguments about the relationship between changes in social attitudes and practices. Also discussed are the new ideological environments of the self-help/therapeutic discourses as an agent for change, and the rapidly burgeoning literatures on intimacy, masculinity and fatherhood. This book advances the state of gender literature by bringing together these areas of research in a concise and accessible format for students, scholars, and practitioners in family and gender studies.