Table of Contents

List of tables and figures

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Is the myth of the nuclear family dead?

2 The other life of the family

3 The rise of intimacy

4 Working for nothing

5 At home: the more things change, the more they

stay the same

6 Pseudomutuality: the disjunction between domestic

inequality and the ideal of equality

7 Economics, breadwinning and family relations

8 How the family is a problem for the state

9 The greatest welfare system ever devised?

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Michael Bittman is Seniro Research Fellow in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales and author of Juggling Time (1991).

Jocelyn Pixley is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of New South Wales and author of Citizenship and Employment (1993).