Children, work, and family Some thoughts on "Mother Blame"

Children, work, and family

Some thoughts on "Mother Blame"

Garey

Anita Ilta

Garey, Anita Ilta

Author

Arendell

Terry

Arendell, Terry

Author

University of California, Berkeley

Center for Working Families

University of California, Berkeley. Center for Working Families

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Berkeley, CA Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley 1999 1999 monographic

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Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley

1999

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This paper addresses the question of how to study, talk, think, and write about children in studies of work and family in ways that are sensitive to the situations of both children and their parents. We ask, "Is it possible to put children in the center of our research without contributing, even if inadvertently, to the cultural tendency to blame mothers for 'child outcomes'?" To address this problem, we argue for research that incorporates a feminist constructionism and the insights of a feminist sociological imagination.

Anita Garey is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families and is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire. Terry Arendell is a senior postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Working Families and Professor of Sociology at Colby College.

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper No. 4

Berkeley Center for Working Families Working Paper

No. 4

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