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1 online resource (1 audio file (11hr., 11 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Gabrielle Baker. |
| Summary |
Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women-lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others-give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society? Heading Home reveals the stark gap between the promise of gender equality and women's experience of continued injustice. It draws on in-depth, personal, and profoundly ambivalent interviews with highly educated London women who left paid employment to take care of their children while their husbands continued to work in high-powered jobs. Equipped with the language of feminism, the women Shani Orgad interviews clearly identify the structural forces that produce and maintain gender inequality. Yet they still struggle to articulate their decisions outside the narrow cultural ideals that devalue motherhood and individualize success and failure. Orgad juxtaposes these stories with media and policy depictions of women, work, and family, detailing how these women continue to interpret and judge themselves according to the ideals that are failing them. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Work and family.
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Working mothers.
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Stay-at-home mothers.
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Women in the professions.
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Women executives.
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Sex discrimination in employment.
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Baker, Gabrielle.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781541458772 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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154145877X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12286297 |
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