The Double Life of the Family

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ISBN: 9781863736299 | 1863736298
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/1997

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Most of us don't live in neat conventional families but the myth of the nuclear family is extremely powerful. Bittman and Pixley analyse the facts and the myths of family life in the 1990s.

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List of tables and figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Is the myth of the nuclear family dead?	p. 1
The other life of the family	p. 16
The rise of intimacy	p. 48
Working for nothing	p. 85
At home: the more things change, the more they stay the same	p. 116
Pseudomutuality: the disjunction between domestic inequality and the ideal of equality	p. 145
Economics, breadwinning and family relations	p. 172
How the family is a problem for the state	p. 210
The greatest welfare system ever devised?	p. 239
Notes	p. 270
References	p. 279
Index	p. 297
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The Double Life of the Family

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