The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household.

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of gendered care, dimensions of gendered time and space, and, straddling work and home, gendered work, income and power.

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.