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Home is where the school is : the logic of homeschooling and the emotional labor of mothering / Jennifer Lois.

By: Publisher: New York : New York University Press, [2013]Description: x, 229 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780814752517 (cl : alk. paper)
  • 9780814752524 (pb : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.04/2 23
LOC classification:
  • LC40 .L65 2013
Contents:
Homeschooling mothers -- Coming to a decision: first- and second-choice homeschoolers -- Defending good-mother identities: the homeschooling stigma -- Adding the teacher role: domestic labor and burnout -- Losing me-time: the temporal emotion work of motherhood -- Looking back: the homeschooling journey -- Taking stock of the present: perceptions of success -- Looking forward: empty desks, empty nests -- Savoring motherhood.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Homeschooling mothers -- Coming to a decision: first- and second-choice homeschoolers -- Defending good-mother identities: the homeschooling stigma -- Adding the teacher role: domestic labor and burnout -- Losing me-time: the temporal emotion work of motherhood -- Looking back: the homeschooling journey -- Taking stock of the present: perceptions of success -- Looking forward: empty desks, empty nests -- Savoring motherhood.

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