Why Who Cleans Counts
What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2020
184 pages
978-1-4473-3676-1 (ISBN)
Description
Every household has to perform housework, and researchers know a lot about what predicts who does which chores, drawing frequently from theoretical explanations that highlight the importance of power dynamics.
This book moves beyond the existing scholarship by using quantitative, nationally representative survey data to theorize about how power dynamics as reflected in housework performance help us understand broader family variations. The authors investigate how knowing who cleans the house explains how households of differing forms, demographics and compositions operate, both cross-sectionally and over the life course of the household.
This book moves beyond the existing scholarship by using quantitative, nationally representative survey data to theorize about how power dynamics as reflected in housework performance help us understand broader family variations. The authors investigate how knowing who cleans the house explains how households of differing forms, demographics and compositions operate, both cross-sectionally and over the life course of the household.
Reviews / Votes
"Davis and Greenstein have written an important book for family scholars, practitioners, and anyone who is in a relationship and trying to maintain a household." David Maume, University of CincinnatiMore details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
24 s/w Abbildungen, 67 s/w Tabellen
67 Tables, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-3676-1 (9781447336761)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447336761
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What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life
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What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life
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02/2020
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Why Who Cleans Counts
What Housework Tells Us about American Family Life
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Persons
Shannon N. Davis is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. She studies the division of household labor and gender ideologies, as well as undergraduate researchers and their mentors.
Theodore N. Greenstein is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. His research interests include work and the family, the division of household labor, and maternal employment.
Theodore N. Greenstein is Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University. His research interests include work and the family, the division of household labor, and maternal employment.
Content
What do we know about housework?
Theorizing housework as an example of power dynamics
Describing the data
The five classes
Housework class characteristics
Housework class consequences
Stability and change in class membership over time
Housework over the family life course
Housework and socialization
Insights for helping families
Theorizing housework as an example of power dynamics
Describing the data
The five classes
Housework class characteristics
Housework class consequences
Stability and change in class membership over time
Housework over the family life course
Housework and socialization
Insights for helping families
