Weaving Work And Motherhood

The Story

Winner of the 2000 William J. Goode Book Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In Weaving Work and Motherhood, Anita Ilta Garey analyzes what it means to be simultaneously a mother who is employed and a worker with children. Moving beyond studies of structural incompatibilities between work and family, this book challenges the notion of the exclusively 'work-oriented' or exclusively 'family-oriented' mother. As women talk about their lives, Garey focuses on the meanings of motherhood and of work that underlie their strategies for integrating employment and motherhood. She replaces notions of how women juggle work and famly with a better understandng of how they integrate, negotiate, and weave together their identities as both workers and mothers.