Emanating from a thesis, presents the outcome of interviews carried out in 1991-92 among women working in a private hospital in California. Covers the effects o

This examination of the extraordinary juggling skills of working women who balance obligations to work & family goes beyond description of possible conflicts of

This book examines the intricate challenges faced by women and families during the transition to motherhood. It presents unique theoretical and methodological a

Winner of a Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year Award Katrina Alcorn was a 37-year-old mother with a happy marriage and a thriving career when one day, on the wa

Weaving together the sociological, the historical, and the personal, Barbara Katz Rothman looks at the contemporary American family through the lens of race, ra