Gender, Power and the Household

SARA ARBER Department of Sociology, University of SurreyANN CORDEN Social Policy Research Unit, University of YorkANNA DUDLESTON Nottingham Trent UniversityVINCENT DUINDAN Department of Social Sciences, University of UtrechtTONY EARDLEY Social Policy Research Unit, University of YorkSARAH GILROY West Sussex Institute of Higher EducationANNE C.GREEN University of WarwickI. HARDILL Nottingham Trent UniversityDAVID MORGAN Reader in Sociology, University of ManchesterDAVID W. OWEN University of WarwickJULIE SEYMOUR Social Policy and Social Studies, University of HullK. STANDING Department of Women's Studies, Liverpool John Moores UniversityJANET STEPHENS School of Social Studies, University of CardiffGILL VALENTINE Department of Geography, University of Sheffield

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors THEORETICAL ISSUES Gender and the Household; L.McKie, S.Bowlby and S.Gregory Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations; D.Morgan GENDERED CARE Men in the Household: Caring Fathers; V.Duindan Roles and Responsibilities for Food Within Families; S.Gregory The Negotiation of Coping: Gender and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage; J.Seymour GENDERED TIME AND SPACE A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Professional Mothers; J.Stephens Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid School Work; K.Standing 'Oh Please Mum. Oh Please Dad': Negotiating Children's Spatial Boundaries; G.Valentine Intra-Household Power Relations and Their Impact on Women's Leisure; S.Gilroy GENDERED WORK, INCOME AND POWER Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage; S.Arber Decision-Making in Dual Career Households; I.Hardill, A.Dudleston and D.Owen Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, and Resource Allocation in Self Employed Households; A.Corden and T.Eardley Index