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Feeding the Family Marjorie L. DeVault

Feeding the Family By Marjorie L. DeVault

Feeding the Family by Marjorie L. DeVault


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A study of the implications of feeding the family from the perspective of those who do that work. Drawing from interviews conducted in 1982-83 in a diverse group of American households, DeVault reveals the effort and skill behind the invisible work of shopping, cooking, and serving meals.

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Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work by Marjorie L. DeVault

Housework--often trivialized or simply overlooked in public discourse--contributes in a complex and essential way to the form that families and societies assume. In this innovative study, Marjorie L. DeVault explores the implications of feeding the family from the perspective of those who do that work. Along the way, DeVault offers a new vocabulary for discussing nurturance as a basis of group life and sociability. Drawing from interviews conducted in 1982-83 in a diverse group of American households, DeVault reveals the effort and skill behind the invisible work of shopping, cooking, and serving meals. She then shows how this work can become oppressive for women, drawing them into social relations that construct and maintain their subordinate position in household life.

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GOR007676128
9780226143606
0226143600
Feeding the Family: The Social Organization of Caring as Gendered Work by Marjorie L. DeVault
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
19940715
284
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