Against the grain
Subtitle: couples, gender, and the reframing of parenting
By: Gillian Ranson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781442603585; 9781442603578
Subjects: Cas, Études de; Changement social; Social change; Beruf; Elternschaft; Parents; Geschlechtliche Arbeitsteilung; Travail et famille; Rôle parental; Sexual division of labor; Geschlechterrolle; Rôle selon le sexe; Parenting; Familie; Case studies; Sex role; Sozialer Wandel; Division sexuelle du travail; Work and family
Description: "Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Victorian satirist, critic, and visual artist, possessed one of the most original and inquiring imaginations of his age. The author of two satires, Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (1903), Butler's intellectually adventurous explorations along the cultural frontiers of his time appeared in volume after eccentric volume. Author of four works on evolution, he was one of the most prolific evolutionary speculators of his time. He was an innovative travel writer and art historian who used the creative insights of his own painting, photography, and local knowledge to invent, in works like Alps and Sanctuaries (1881), a vibrant Italian culture that contrasted with the spiritually frigid experience of his High Church upbringing.

Despite his range and achievement, there remains surprisingly little contemporary analytical commentary on Butler's work. Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that provides a critical overview of Butler's career, one which places his multifaceted body of work within the cultural framework of the Victorian age. The essays, taken together, discuss the formation of Victorian England's ultimate polymath, an artistic and intellectual ventriloquist who assumed an extraordinary range of roles; as satirist, novelist, evolutionist, natural theologian, travel writer, art historian, biographer, classicist, painter, and photographer."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the scene. Introduction ; Establishing the context ; The study; title: Getting started : caring for children in the preschool years. Introduction ; The "crossovers" : breadwinner mothers with partners at home ; "Shift-workers" and "Dual-dividers" : sharing earning, sharing caring; title: The longer view : couples with school-age children. Introduction ; Challenges on the path to change ; Parents as peers; title: Review and reflection. Introduction ; Parenting and undoing of gender; title: Appendix. The study participants.