Book Talk | Jessica Calarco | Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net
Join the Institute for Public Knowledge on September 25th at 5:30 PM for a book talk with Jessica Calarco. She will discuss her new book Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net with Kathleen Gerson and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas.
Jessica Calarco is Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. An expert on families, schools, and inequalities, and a mom of two, she is the author of multiple award-winning books and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and Inside Higher Ed, as well as appeared on CNN, CNBC, NPR, and the BBC to discuss her research. See more at: http://www.jessicacalarco.com/.
Kathleen Gerson is Collegiate Professor of Sociology and a recognized authority on the intertwined revolutions in gender, work, and family life in the United States and globally. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards, and the author of numerous books, including “The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality” (with Jerry A. Jacobs), which offers a “panoramic” study of how and why time pressures have emerged in contemporary life and what to do to alleviate them, “The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family,” an award-winning study of how new generations are reshaping family life after growing up in changing families, and most recently “The Science and Art of Interviewing” (with Sarah Damaske). She is currently completing a book, tentatively titled “Why No One Can Have It All: The Collision of Work and Caregiving in the New Economy,” which examines the prospects for gender equality as today’s workers and parents respond to deepening work-care conflicts in an era of insecurity.
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas is the Doris Stevens Professor in Women’s Studies and Professor of Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research examines the experiences of women from the Philippines to understand how gender shapes migration, how states manage migration, how gendered economies operate in globalization and how worker unfreedom is a constitutive element of development. She is a scholar of gender, migration, labor, and economic sociology. She has completed four ethnographic studies including Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States , which was recognized with the 2023 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award by the American Sociological Association. Her other books include Servants of Globalization: Migration and Domestic Work; Children of Global Migration: Transnational Families and Gendered Woes; and Illicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration and Sex Trafficking in Tokyo. Her current project examines the nurse migration industry in the Philippines.