Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront UnemploymentIn 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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Contents
A Tale of Two Unemployments | 1 |
Men at Home | 31 |
Idealizing the Home and Spurning the Workplace? | 60 |
Dinner Table Diaries | 89 |
Can Women Be Ideal JobSeekers? | 116 |
Why Dont Unemployed Men Do More Housework? | 145 |
Why Do Unemployed Women Do Even More | 171 |
Age of Uncertainty | 207 |
Professionals and Spouses | 241 |
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| Title | Crunch Time: How Married Couples Confront Unemployment |
| Author | Aliya Hamid Rao |
| Publisher | Univ of California Press, 2020 |
| ISBN | 0520298616, 9780520298613 |
| Length | 306 pages |
| Subjects | › › Family & Relationships / Marriage & Long-Term Relationships Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family |
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