Sociology of Housework
by Ann Oakley
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Ann Oakley analyses the perceptions of forty urban housewives around housework, their feelings of monotony and fragmentation, the length of their working week, the importance of standards and routines, and their attitudes to different household tasks. This classic book paves the way for the sociological study of many more aspects of women's lives.Tags
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Based on research carried out for a doctoral dissertation in sociology, including interviews with forty British mothers of pre-school children, this book carefully differentiates housework, "unpaid domestic labour", from wifehood and motherhood, and points out and questions "the socially imposed tie between femininity and domesticity". ... Housework itself she considers to have beeen show more denigrated and trivialized in sociological study; here is a full analysis of what it entails. show less
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Ann Oakley is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the UCL Institute of Education. A social researcher for more than 50 years, and author of many academic publications, she is also well known for her biography, autobiography and fiction. She founded both the Social Science Research Unit and the EPPI-Centre at the UCL Institute of Education, show more and has a long-term interest in gender, welfare, and the shaping of public policy. show less
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title*
- Soziologie der Hausarbeit
- Original title
- Sociology of Housework
- Quotations
- The values of feeling about housework and approach to the role of housewife may not coincide.
Standards of achievement exist of which the housewife is permanently aware, but which she cannot often hope to reach.
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Classifications
- Genres
- Sociology, Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 306.36 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Economic institutions Systems of labor
- LCC
- HQ1597 .O15 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
