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Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care
Author(s): Karen V. Hansen (Author)
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date: 24 Nov. 2004
- Language: English
- Print length: 261 pages
- ISBN-10: 081353500X
- ISBN-13: 9780813535005
Book Description
How do working parents provide care and mobilize the help that they need? Karen V. Hansen investigates the lives of working parents and the informal networks they construct to help care for their children. The book concludes with a series of policy suggestions intended to improve the environment in which working families raise children.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“In vivid portraits drawn from the top and bottom of the social-class ladder, Hansen shows the profound effect social class has on care. Well observed, beautifully written, this book is a must read.” -Arlie Hochschild, author of The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work “Not-So-Nuclear Families makes an important contribution to our understanding of how parents orchestrate ‘care’ for their children among U.S. families widely perceived as not having the same challenges and problems as everyone else.”-Barbara Schneider, University of Chicago”
About the Author
Karen V. Hansen is an associate professor of sociology and women’s studies at Brandeis University and is the coeditor of Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics.
