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Author Stoller, Sarah E., author.

Title Inventing the working parent : work, gender, and feminism in neoliberal Britain / Sarah E. Stoller
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 285 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- 1 Who Cares? The Problem of Childcare for Working Parents -- 2 From Women's Liberation to New Ways to Work: Feminist Labor Activism and the Making of Working Parenthood -- 3 From Equality to Diversity: Working Parents in the Public Sector -- 4 Making the Business Case: The Rise of the "Family-Friendly" Private Sector -- 5 Becoming a Working Parent: Labor Intensification and the Pursuit of "Having It All" -- Conclusion
Summary "Charts how corporate and government handling of working parents in the 1980s and 1990s followed the development of neo-liberalism"-- Provided by publisher.650
Analysis SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
HISTORY / Women
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 21, 2023)
Subject Parenting -- Great Britain
Children of working parents -- Great Britain
Neoliberalism -- Great Britain
Children of working parents
Neoliberalism
Parenting
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022036854
ISBN 9780262375078
0262375079
9780262375061
0262375060