Foreword
Alexis Herman
Acknowledgments
I. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
1. Women's Approach to Work: The Creation of Knowledge
Anne Statham, Hans O. Mauksch, Eleanor M. Miller
2. The Integration Work: A Second-order Analysis of Qualitative Research
Anne Statham, Eleanor M. Miller, Hans O. Mauksch
II. DOING WHAT COMES NATURALLY? THE CARETAKER ROLE
3. Social Policy and Everyday Life in Nursing Homes: A Critical Ethnography
Timothy Diamond
4. A Belated Industry Revised: Domestic Serivce among Japanese-American Women
Evelyn Nakano Glenn
5. Day Work in the Suburbs: The Work Experience of Chicana Private Housekeepers
Mary Romero
6. The Caretakers: Keeping the Area Up and the Family Together
Jane C. Hood
7. "Some Peoples Calls It Crime:" Hustling, the Illegal Work of Underclass Women
Eleanor M. Miller
III. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE WITHOUT PROFESSIONAL POWER
8. Registered Nurses, Gender, and Commitment
Mary C. Corley and Hans O. Mauksch
9. Women Talking to Women: Abortion Counselors and Genetic Counselors
Barbara Katz Rothman and Melinda Detlefs
10. Public Schoolteaching: A Suitable Job For A Woman?
Dee Ann Spencer
11. Women at the Top of Women's Fields: Social Work, Nursing, and Education
Sheila K. Collins
IV. MAKING IT IN THE MALE WORLD
12. Think Like a Man, Work Like a Dog, and Act Like a Lady: Occupational Dilemmas of Policewomen
Susan E. Martin
13. Woman Working for Women: The Manager and Her Secretary
Anne Statham
14. Women in Direct Sales: A Comparison of Mary Kay and Amway Sales Workers
Maureen Connelly and Patricia Rhoton
15. Invisible Amidst the Glittter: Hispanic Women in the Southern California Electronics Industry
M. Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Anna M. Garcia
V. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
16. Policy Implications: The Worth of Women's Work
Ruth Needleman and Anne Nelson
17. The Qualitative Approach to the Study of Women's Work: Different Method/Different Knowledge
Eleanor M. Miller, Hans O. Mauksch, Anne Statham
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Concepts