Description |
125 pages ; 25 cm |
Series |
Quarterly essay, 1832-0953 ; issue 29 2008 |
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Quarterly essay ; issue 29
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Quarterly essay, 1832-0953 ; issue 29 2008
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Contents |
Includes Correspondence: Bill Bowtell, Norman Abjorsensen, Rebecca Huntley, Tony Kevin, Judith Brett, Philip Moore, Ian Lowe |
Summary |
In Love & Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work - its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are child-care corporations and self-interested employers. This is an essay that ranges widely and entertainingly across contemporary culture: it casts an inquisitive eye over the modern marriage of Kevin Rudd and Therese Rein, and considers the time-bind and the shadow economy of care. Most fundamentally, it is an essay about pressure: the pressure to balance care for others and the world of work. Manne argues that devaluing motherhood - still central to so many women's lives - has done feminism few favours. For women on the frontline of the work-centred society, it has made for hard choices. Eloquently and persuasively, Manne tells what happened when feminism adapted itself to the free market and argues that any true definition of equality has to take into account dependency and care for others |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Work and family -- Australia.
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Children of working parents -- Australia.
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Child care -- Australia -- Psychological aspects.
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SUBJECT |
Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
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ISBN |
9781863951593 |
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