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| Part One Family Labor and the Construction of Gender |
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Being the ``Go-To Guy'': Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the Organization of Work in Silicon Valley |
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5 | (27) |
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My Wife Can Tell Me Who I Know: Methodological and Conceptual Problems in Studying Fathers |
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32 | (27) |
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Constructing Gender and Occupational Segregation: A Study of Women and Work in Fishing Communities |
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59 | (23) |
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Domesticity and the Political Economy of Lesbigay Families |
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82 | (27) |
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| Part Two Employment and the Care of Children |
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109 | (90) |
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Halving It All: The Mother and Mr. Mom |
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113 | (26) |
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I'm Here, but I'm There: The Meanings of Transnational Motherhood |
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139 | (23) |
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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo |
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Using Kin for Childcare: Embedment in the Socioeconomic Networks of Extended Families |
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162 | (19) |
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Work-Family Issues of Mothers of Teenage Children |
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181 | (18) |
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| Part Three Family, Community, and Social Context |
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Black Picket Fences: Growing Up in Groveland |
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203 | (22) |
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Single Mothers and Social Support: The Commitment to, and Retreat from, Reciprocity |
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225 | (26) |
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The Third Shift: Gender and Care Work Outside the Home |
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251 | (15) |
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Producing Family Time: Practices of Leisure Activity Beyond the Home |
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266 | (19) |
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| Part Four Policy, Politics, and Working Families |
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285 | (72) |
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Challenges for Studying Care after AFDC |
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289 | (13) |
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Living with Violence: Women's Reliance on Abusive Men in Their Transitions from Welfare to Work |
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302 | (15) |
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Unions' Responses to Family Concerns |
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317 | (26) |
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The Contradictory Effects of Work and Family on Political Activism |
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343 | (14) |
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| Contributors |
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| Index |
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