Who Supports the Family?: Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: rethinking breadwinning; 2. Gender boundaries and the social construction of gender; 3. Employed wives' constructions of breadwinning; 4. Dual-earner husbands' constructions of breadwinning; 5. Collaborative constructions of gender: couples who agree about the breadwinning boundary; 6. Contested constructions of gender: couples who dfisagree about the breadwinning boundary; 7. Breadwinning and mothering: the relationship of gender boundaries: 8. Breadwinning and the web of gender; Appendix; References; Index.