The Second Shift
by Hochschild, Arlie; Machung, Anne (CON)Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-01-31
Publisher(s): Penguin Group USA
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Summary
A landmark study of two-career parents, and a compassionate inside view of ten couples struggling to find time and energy for jobs, children and marriage.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xi |
| Acknowledgments | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. xxiii |
| The Family Speed-up | p. 1 |
| Marriage in a Stalled Revolution | p. 11 |
| The Cultural Cover-up | p. 22 |
| Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt | p. 34 |
| The Family Myth of the Traditional: Frank and Carmen Delacorte | p. 61 |
| A Notion of Manhood and Giving Thanks: Peter and Nina Tanagawa | p. 77 |
| Having It All and Giving It Up: Ann and Robert Myerson | p. 96 |
| A Scarcity of Gratitude: Seth and Jessica Stein | p. 111 |
| An Unsteady Marriage and a Job She Loves: Anita and Ray Judson | p. 129 |
| The "His" and "Hers" of Sharing: Greg and Carol Alston | p. 143 |
| No Time Together: Barbara and John Livingston | p. 160 |
| Sharing Showdown and Natural Drift: Pathways to the New Man | p. 173 |
| Beneath the Cover-up: Strategies and Strains | p. 188 |
| Tensions in Marriage in an Age of Divorce | p. 201 |
| Men Who Do and Men Who Don't | p. 213 |
| The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant | p. 235 |
| Stepping into Old Biographies or Making History Happen? | p. 250 |
| Afterword | p. 263 |
| Appendix Research on Who Does the Housework and Child Care | p. 271 |
| Notes | p. 279 |
| Selected Reading | p. 291 |
| Nonprofit Organizations Engaged in Helping Working Families | p. 307 |
| Index | p. 309 |
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