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Women, Work, and Families
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Women, Work, and Families
Balancing and Weaving

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January 2001 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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This study of 30 mothers looks at the varying ways women balance work and family life. It is carried out through intensive interviews and the data is examined from several theoretical standpoints, including structural theory, motherhood theory, and feminist theory.
 
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Angie Jean Hattery

Angela J. Hattery is Professor of the Women & Gender Studiesand co-Director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence at the Universityof Delaware. She received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Carleton College and her masters and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of 12 books. Her most recent, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement explores the ways in which racial antagonisms are exacerbated by... More About Author

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