ISBN:
9780803937567
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (317 p)
Series Statement:
SAGE Focus Editions
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender, Family and Economy : The Triple Overlap
DDC:
306.3/615
Keywords:
Sexual division of labor
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Sex role
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Work and family
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The 'triple overlap' refers to the link between gender stratification, the household and economic variables. In this volume, leading sociologists examine this overlap as a totality, providing theoretical concepts and new research on how the triple overlap works, both inside the family and within the broader context of society. Their competing conceptions of the interrelationship of gender, family and economy are bolstered by empirical papers which raise questions of culture, class and race within the contexts of both the developed and developing worlds. Six of the articles in this volume were
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Introduction: The ""Triple Overlap"" of Gender Stratification, Economy, and the Family; Part I - Theories Illuminating the ""Triple Overlap""; Chapter 1 - A Theory of Family, Economy, and Gender; Chapter 2 - Women and Men in the Class Structure; Chapter 3 - The Gender Division of Labor and the Reproduction of Female Disadvantage: Toward an Integrated Theory; Part II - Theories and Data from Third World Peoples; Chapter 4 - Income Under Female Versus Male Control: Hypotheses from a Theory of Gender Stratification and Data from the Third World
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 - Female Autonomy, the Family, and Industrialization in JavaChapter 6 - Gender, Family, and Economy in a Planned, Industrial City: The Working- and Lower-Class Households of Ciudad Guayana; Chapter 7 - Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class Oppression; Afterword: Racial Ethnic Women's Labor: Factoring in Gender Stratification; Part III - Contrasting Conceptualizations of the Household; Chapter 8 - The Common Pot or Separate Purses? A Transaction Cost Interpretation; Chapter 9 - Households as an Institution of the World-Economy
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV - Gender, Money, and HouseworkChapter 10 - The Division of Household Labor: Suggestions for Future Empirical Consideration and Theoretical Development; Chapter 11 - Money and Ideology: Their Impact on Power and the Division of Household Labor; Chapter 12 - Gender Inequality: New Conceptual Terrain; About the Authors
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