In Unbending Gender Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn t addressed the issues that dominate their daily lives--she outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces focused on the needs of families and in divorce cases recognition of the value of family work and its impact on women s earning power. Williams shows that workplaces are designed around men s bodies and life patterns in ways that discriminate against women and that the work/family system that results is terrible for men worse for women and worst of all for children. She proposes a set of practical policies and legal initiatives to reorganize the two realms of work in employment and households--so that men and women can lead healthier and more productive personal and work lives. Williams introduces a new reconstructive feminism that places class race and gender conflicts among women at center stage. Her solution is an inclusive family-friendly feminism that supports both mothers and fathers as caregivers and as workers.