Women, Work, and Families

Angela J. Hattery is Professor of the Women & Gender Studiesand co-Director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence at the Universityof Delaware. She received her BA in sociology and anthropology from Carleton College and her masters and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of 12 books. Her most recent, Way Down in the Hole: Race, Intimacy and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement explores the ways in which racial antagonisms are exacerbated by theparticularstructures of solitaryconfinement. She is also the author of Policing Black Bodies: How Black Lives are Surveilled and How to Work for Change (2022) and Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today. Prior to coming to UD she held positions at Ball State University, Wake Forest University, Colgate University, and most recently at George Mason University.

• Introduction and History of Women′s Labour Force ParticipationIdeologies of MotherhoodContent and the Dominant ModelBalancing and Weaving to Be a `Good′ MotherTheoretical Paradigms for Understanding Maternal Labour Force ParticipationTo Work or Not to Work? That Is the Question`Are Children Better Off if They Have New Bikes Rather Than Having You at Home?′Motherhood Ideology anf the Construction of Economic Need`He′s Got to Learn That the World Is Not Just He Alone′Solving the Childcare DilemmaThe Power of Ideology and the Ideology of Power

"Hattery’s book is an important contribution to this literature. The book is engaging and is well written. I would recommend this book and encourage Hattery to continue examination of this construct."