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Who Pays for the Kids? : Gender and the Structures of Constraint

Who Pays for the Kids? : Gender and the Structures of Constraint Hard cover - 1994

by Nancy Folbre

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race a
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  • Title Who Pays for the Kids? : Gender and the Structures of Constraint
  • Author Nancy Folbre
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 1994-01-06
  • Features Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780415075640_pod
  • ISBN 9780415075640 / 0415075645
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.34 x 0.94 in (24.13 x 16.10 x 2.39 cm)
  • Ages 18 to 18 years
  • Grade levels 13 - 13
  • Reading level 1450
  • Library of Congress subjects Labor economics, Work and family
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93017207
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.42

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Three paradoxes surround the division of the costs of social reproduction:
* Women have entered the paid labour force in growing numbers, but they continue to perform most of the unpaid labour of housework and childcare.
* Birth rates have fallen but more and more mothers are supporting children on their own, with little or no assistance from fathers.
* The growth of state spending is often blamed on malfunctioning markets, or runaway bureaucracies. But a large percentage of social spending provides substitutes for income transfers that once took place within families.
Who Pays for the Kids? explains how this paradoxical situation has arisen. The costs of social reproduction are largely paid by women: men have remained extremely reluctant to pay their share of the costs of raising the next generation. Traditional theories - neo-classical, Marxist and Feminist - can only provide an incomplete account of this, and this book offers an alternative analysis, based on individual choices but within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, age, sex, nation, race and class

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