As a researcher whose training is of the lit crit\/historical persuasion (I am NOT nor have I ever been a social scientist, though there are times when I really wish I were!), I have a question for my friends of the economist\/social scientist persuasion:<\/p>\n
For those picking up this thread today, I’ve been blogging this week about Leslie Bennett’s book, The Feminine Mistake,<\/span> as I read it. Much as I may disagree on certain (key) points, Leslie Bennetts is GOOD. Every time I silently voice an objection, she addresses it on the next page. But I have a more general question about journalists interpreting data when it comes to research on women\/girls\/families — and maybe experts from the Council on Contemporary Families<\/a> crew can help us out here and set it straight.<\/p>\n Bennetts writes that “some feminists have challenged the very existence of a back-to-the-home trend on the grounds that more than two-thirds of all American mothers still participate in the labor force” (7) and that “[o]ther analysts have challenged the idea that we’re witnessing a resurgence of stay-at-home motherhood by attacking the news stories describing this phenomenon” (8). She calls analyses like those put forth by Heather Boushey “arguments.” I thought they were evidence. She calls them “denials” and invokes (critically, perhaps, but I think not) Linda Hirshman who refers to it all as the “it’s not happening” defense.<\/p>\n Which is it? Is it happening? Or not? Is the reading of the early 2000s recession as the reason for women’s labor-force dip interpretation — or fact?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As a researcher whose training is of the lit crit\/historical persuasion (I am NOT nor have I ever been a social scientist, though there are times when I really wish I were!), I have a question for my friends of the economist\/social scientist persuasion: For those picking up this thread today, I’ve been blogging this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21282,21938],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crossover","tag-worklife"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}