Lexington Books
Pages: 298
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Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-1-4985-3415-4 • Hardback • December 2016 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-3417-8 • Paperback • April 2019 • $44.99 • (£35.00)
978-1-4985-3416-1 • eBook • December 2016 • $42.50 • (£33.00)
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield is assistant professor at the University of Houston – Downtown.
Contents
Foreword
Patrice Buzzanell
Introduction
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Crafting the Modern Ideal Worker
Chapter 1
The ideal teleworker: A critique of ideal-worker constructions in a nonstandard work environment
Millie A. Harrison
Chapter 2
What work-life balance? Ohio welfare to work program managers’ focus on paid work
Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch, and Brianna Turgeon
Chapter 3
Putting your career first: Forbes’ guilt-free working mom
Samantha Szczur
Having It All in a Culture of Competing Demands
Chapter 4
Freedom with limits: Communication, work-life balance and the “mompreneur”
Cara Jacocks
Chapter 5
Opting (back) in to paid work: A capitalist, gendered, classed, careerist analysis
Erika L. Kirby with Timothy Kuhn, M. Chad McBride, George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Rebecca J. Meisenbach, Robyn V. Remke, and Stacey M. B. Wieland
Chapter 6
Innovative career-life initiatives for women faculty in STEM: A content analysis of funded NSF ADVANCE STEM Institutional Transformation proposals
Elizabeth Tolman and Amanda Macht Jantzer
Chapter 7
It’s about priorities: Adaptation strategies of dual military couples
David G. Smith
Gender Roles at Home in a Dual Earner Society
Chapter 8
“There’s a thousand invisible things I do around here”: Examining mothers’ roles in the gendered division of labor on sitcoms
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Chapter 9
Work-family balance and immigrant Sub-Saharan women in the United States
Gladys Muasya
Chapter 10
Uncovering pathways to support for family relocation: The gendered influence of the divisions of housework and perceptions of fairness
Shannon N. Davis, Julia Anderson, and Shannon K. Jacobsen
Defining Work-Life Balance Beyond Mothers
Chapter 11
Social stigma, child-free identities, and work-life balance
Jessica M. Rick and Rebecca J. Meisenbach
Chapter 12
Tracing the Daddy Wars: The emergence of dad culture and the prioritization of work-life balance
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield and Katherine Hampsten
Chapter 13
Paternity leave, identity and fatherhood
Scott Sellnow-Richmond and Loraleigh Keashley
About the Editor and Contributors
This edited volume includes a diverse range of innovative work-family scholarship that pushes the field in exciting new directions.
— Caryn Medved, Baruch College
This compilation brings to life the unique approach, and contribution, of communication scholarship to the quandaries and opportunities in managing the work/life interface. It is just the kind of collection I’ve been hoping to see brought forth.
— Kendra Knight, DePaul University
This text beautifully captures the history, nuances, and expansions of work-life concerns across contexts and roles to provide comprehensive discussion of negotiation across modern challenges.
— Sarah E. Riforgiate, Kansas State University