Media and middle class moms
Subtitle: managing and imagining work and family in a middle class town
By: Lara Descartes and Conrad P. Kottak.
Contributors: Kottak, Conrad Phillip.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780415993081; 9780415993098
Subjects: Working mothers -- Michigan -- Dexter; Middle class women -- Michigan -- Dexter; Middle class families -- Michigan -- Dexter; Mass media and the family -- Michigan -- Dexter; Work and family -- Michigan -- Dexter; Dexter (Mich.) -- Social conditions; Dexter (Mich.) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Media-ting work and family; title: Studying a midwestern town; title: Media representations : constancy and change; title: Parents' media usage, consumption, and reflections about media; title: Work-family choices; title: Middle class moms : you feel guilty if you work, you feel guilty if you stay home; title: Isolation, boundaries, and connection : six case studies; title: Comparison, connection, and common ground.