List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors THEORETICAL ISSUES Gender and the Household; L.McKie, S.Bowlby and S.Gregory Gendering the Household: Some Theoretical Considerations; D.Morgan GENDERED CARE Men in the Household: Caring Fathers; V.Duindan Roles and Responsibilities for Food Within Families; S.Gregory The Negotiation of Coping: Gender and the Onset of Disablement in Marriage; J.Seymour GENDERED TIME AND SPACE A Fight for Her Time: Challenges Facing Professional Mothers; J.Stephens Negotiating the Home and the School: Low Income, Lone Mothering and Unpaid School Work; K.Standing \'Oh Please Mum. Oh Please Dad\': Negotiating Children\'s Spatial Boundaries; G.Valentine Intra-Household Power Relations and Their Impact on Women\'s Leisure; S.Gilroy GENDERED WORK, INCOME AND POWER Unequal Partners: Inequality in Earnings and Independent Income within Marriage; S.Arber Decision-Making in Dual Career Households; I.Hardill, A.Dudleston and D.Owen Sexing the Enterprise: Gender, and Resource Allocation in Self Employed Households; A.Corden and T.Eardley Index