Wifework - Softcover

Maushart, Susan

 
9780747561729: Wifework
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0747561729 ISBN 13: 9780747561729
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

'Men get one thing from marriage that women never do. They get wives.' Husbands and wives may say they are committed to equality. Yet, whether employed or not, wives still perform an astounding share of the physical, emotional and organisational labour in marriage - everything from housework to 'sex work'. 'Wifework' is shorthand for this relentless routine of husband maintenance. Women today initiate three-quarters of all divorces. Wifework, Maushart argues, lies at the core of their disillusionment. If family life is worth saving, wifework will have to go. And that means rewriting the job description to make marriage more equitable, less exhausting and more fun for women. In this compulsively readable book, Susan Maushart documents the wifework dilemma and explores its consequences for all the stakeholders: men, women and children alike. WIFEWORK is funny, lucid, provocative and inspirational.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susan Maushart was born in New York and emigrated to Australia in 1985. She is the author of THE MASK OF MOTHERHOOD which was published to international acclaim in 1999. She is a senior research associate at Curtin University, a columnist for the Australian Magazine and lives in Perth with her three children.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0747561729
ISBN 13 
9780747561729
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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