Gender, Power and the Household

SARA ARBER Department of Sociology, University of Surrey ANN CORDEN Social Policy Research Unit, University of York ANNA DUDLESTON Nottingham Trent University VINCENT DUINDAN Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht TONY EARDLEY Social Policy Research Unit, University of York SARAH GILROY West Sussex Institute of Higher Education ANNE C.GREEN University of Warwick I. HARDILL Nottingham Trent University DAVID MORGAN Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester DAVID W. OWEN University of Warwick JULIE SEYMOUR Social Policy and Social Studies, University of Hull K. STANDING Department of Women's Studies, Liverpool John Moores University JANET STEPHENS School of Social Studies, University of Cardiff GILL VALENTINE Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ; dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .