Crunch Time : How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
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Overview
In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work--that it's a requirement for men and optional for women--loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men's unemployment an urgent problem, while women's unemployment--cocooned within a narrative of staying at home--is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.
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- ISBN-13: 9780520298613
- ISBN-10: 0520298616
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish Date: June 2020
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.85 pounds
- Page Count: 308
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