Amy Lutz: Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus, Gebunden

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"When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children's teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely remained in place, and these extra child rearing responsibilities fell disproportionately on mothers. Mothering in the Time of Coronavirus explores how they juggled working, supervising at-home learning, and protecting their children's emotional and physical health during the outbreak. Focusing on both remote and essential workers in central New York, Amy Lutz, Sujung (Crystal) Lee, and Baurzhan Bokayev argue that the pandemic transformed an already intensive style of contemporary American child rearing into extremely intensive mothering. The authors investigate the many ramifications of this shift, and how it is influenced by issues such as class and race. Targeting their study within larger intersections of gender, families and education, they contend that to fully understand the broader social consequences of COVID-19, we must understand the experiences of mothers"--