Time Use in Domestic Settings Throughout the Life Course The Italian Case /

• Main Author: Dotti Sani, Giulia Maria (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
• Subjects: Social groups.; Family.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Families.; Families-Social aspects.; Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.; Gender Studies.

The volume is the first to take a life-course approach to the study of domestic work in Italy. It provides a coherent and systemic overview of time spent on housework, childcare and adult care over the life course. While most previous research has focused on the time adult women and men spend on hou...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Theoretical background
• Chapter 3. The Italian Time Use Survey
• Chapter 4. Domestic work among children, teenagers, and young adults
• Chapter 5. Young and beautiful. Domestic work among childless women and men
• Chapter 6. Parenthood and domestic work: a never-ending workload
• Chapter 7. When the kids grow up: domestic work among Italians aged 45 to 64
• Chapter 8. In the empty nest: housework and adult care among Italians aged 65 and above
• Chapter 9. Conclusions.