Author:
Orgad, Shani, 1972- author.
ImprintNew York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Descriptionx, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Part I. Heading Home: Forced Choices -- Choice and Confidence Culture/Toxic Work Culture -- The Balanced Woman/Unequal Homes -- Part II. Heading the Home: The Personal Consequences of Forced Choices -- Cupcake Mom/Family CEO -- Aberrant Mothers/Captive Wives -- Part III. Heading Where? Curbed Desires -- The Mompreneur/Inarticulate Desire -- Inevitable Change/Invisible Chains -- Conclusion: Impatience -- Appendix 1. Interviewees' Key Characteristics -- Appendix 2. List of Media and Policy Representations -- Appendix 3. Study Methodology -- Appendix 4. Characteristics of UK Stay-at-Home Mothers.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children, juxtaposed with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
