Sexual Divisions and Society: Process and Change

ISBN-13: 9781138487550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Sheila Allen; Diana Leonard Barker

Opis

Originally published in 1976, Sexual Divisions and Society suggests that sociology has often included women completely within the term of ‘men’, or as a part of their husbands, rather than asking how and when the relationship between the sexes explans social structure and behaviour.

Spis treści

Contributors  Preface  1. Sexual Divisions and Society  2. In the Production of their Lives, Men (?)… Sex and Gender in the British Community Studies  3. Kin, Clients, and Accomplices: Relationships Among Women in Morocco  4. Continuities and Discontinuities in Marriage and Divorce  5. French Judicial Ideology in Work-Class Divorce  6. Women: Supporters or Supported?  7. Finishing School: Some Implications of Sex-Segregated Education  8. ‘Who Wants Babies?’: The Social Construction of ‘Instincts’  9. I May Be a Queer, But at Least I am a Man: Male Hegemony and Ascribed Versus Achieved Gender  10. Women’s Liberation, Reproduction, and the Technological Fix  11. ‘Free-Choice Marriage’ in China: The Evolution of an Ideal  12. Men, Women and Communes  Name Index  Subject Index

O autorze

Sheila Allen, Diana Leonard Barker