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This book has really been inspiring and eye opening and thought-provoking. I've thought that the concept of women 'opting out' of the workforce was an accepted norm belief-- even though it felt incorrect in some deep-seated way. But I've never really thought about what another explanation could be. Joan Williams brings forward some very interesting hypothesis, based on significant interviews and studies and data, which state that women are actually being forced out of the workforce due to lack o...
In Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, law professor Joan Williams writes as a progressive feminist for an audience of progressive elites. Her dual purpose is to reframe A) conversations about work/family 'balance,' caregiving, related public policy, and gender and B) progressive elites' perceptions of working class people and self-perceptions, which Williams sees as impeding a politically-effective coalition that could change the game in US politics for the better. Roughly speaking, the first 3 c...
In Reshaping the Work-Family Debate, law professor Joan Williams writes as a progressive feminist for an audience of progressive elites. Her dual purpose is to reframe A) conversations about work/family 'balance,' caregiving, related public policy, and gender and B) progressive elites' perceptions of working class people and self-perceptions, which Williams sees as impeding a politically-effective coalition that could change the game in US politics for the better. Roughly speaking, the first 3 c...
Chapter 5 & 6: class/culture conflict is a bit off-topic for the book but very thought provoking. Excited to read Williams’ 2017 book on this.
Chapter 5 & 6: class/culture conflict is a bit off-topic for the book but very thought provoking. Excited to read Williams’ 2017 book on this.
Chapter 5 & 6: class/culture conflict is a bit off-topic for the book but very thought provoking. Excited to read Williams’ 2017 book on this.
Chapter 5 & 6: class/culture conflict is a bit off-topic for the book but very thought provoking. Excited to read Williams’ 2017 book on this.
Chapter 5 & 6: class/culture conflict is a bit off-topic for the book but very thought provoking. Excited to read Williams’ 2017 book on this.
Another fantastic book. It opened my eyes to even more factors that must be considered in any solution to the Big Problems faced by parents in navigating work and family care and everything wrapped up within them.This book is too far-reaching for me to be able to do it justice, so the below is going to be what stuck out most to me--mostly in the form of blocks of text pulled directly from the book.1. The narrative of women opting out of the workforce (pull factor) as opposed to be pushed out is
读完全书写评论的时候我才意识题目副标题有关男性。全书是根本上是对女权主义和性别平等进而促进社会进步进路的反思和补充,觉得女权主义不应只关注女性,同时应当重塑男子气概等概念;社会不应当只关注底层,也应当关注被忽视的中层。
This book was revelatory. Professor Williams makes a very strong case that both men and women, employers and employees, will benefit from workplaces that make accommodations to the requirements of family life. Her review of grievance proceedings shows that men as often as women suffer adverse employment decisions when a crisis strikes and they must leave to take care of family emergencies. She makes a very strong case for the importance of upper middle class people taking the time and effort to
This is a must-read. Williams offers an incisive analysis on how class and gender are critical lenses to frame the work-family issue. Whilst inflexible workplaces often push women out, they are equally detrimental to men. The workplace has often been determined as the site which produces and reproduces the class struggle, however Williams points out aptly that class is learned at the knee of the family. The gender aspect of separate spheres also reproduces class, as much as gender. The insight t...
Joan Williams is brilliant. I wrote about it here: http://deepmuckbigrake.com/2010/12/05....
I enjoyed this read by Joan C. Williams. I read it for my social science seminar. There is a lot of valid information without overwhelming the reader. I liked the academic yet conversational style of the book.
I enjoyed this read by Joan C. Williams. I read it for my social science seminar. There is a lot of valid information without overwhelming the reader. I liked the academic yet conversational style of the book.
I enjoyed this read by Joan C. Williams. I read it for my social science seminar. There is a lot of valid information without overwhelming the reader. I liked the academic yet conversational style of the book.
This book should be mandatory reading for any liberal still struggling to understand what happened on November 8, 2016. Great guidance - and a needed dose of humility - for those struggling to understand the "white working class". And finally, an exquisitely written and incisive treatise that takes on the elephant in America's room: masculinity. This election cycle saw some discussion of "toxic masculinity", mostly in the context of sexual assault. And that discussion is important, but misses th...
Measured, engaging and insightful. Williams casts a light on the consequences of the prevalence of a masculine ideal as a default in most workplaces. She dedicates a large portion of the book to addressing these consequences for the family contexts of professional-managerial and working classes respectively.An incremental push towards "reconstructive feminism" is suggested as a solution. (In short: challenging default masculine attitides that routinely benefit men economically - although perhaps...
Measured, engaging and insightful. Williams casts a light on the consequences of the prevalence of a masculine ideal as a default in most workplaces. She dedicates a large portion of the book to addressing these consequences for the family contexts of professional-managerial and working classes respectively.An incremental push towards "reconstructive feminism" is suggested as a solution. (In short: challenging default masculine attitides that routinely benefit men economically - although perhaps...